What is to be done?
XiaCobolt
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I think it varied quite a lot depending on the location and the time. We're talking really hard to comprehend lengths of pre-historic time. Like 300,000 years of what we consider a modern human.
And the differences between hunting and gathering, and agriculture as @xj9@hexbear.net says are not as clear cut. Many "Hunter-Gatherer" societies might be moving between semi-permanent seasonal camps (sometimes leaving behind structures and dwellings) where they had planted different crops along the routes and at the places, so they could change with the climate and animal migration
Other permanent "agricultural" settlements, might have been permanent communities with crops growing, livestock etc, but also significant portions of their population going on hunting trips that might take weeks or pasturing livestock in different regions. And almost certainly some amount of foraging local areas. We know even medieval peasants still did that.
At any rates both might have had periods of peace and abundance, versus scarcity and extreme violence. There's probably some hunter-gatherers whose lives were like the garden of Eden, others who it was like The Road. Likewise there's probably farming communites who were like "we've cracked the code free food forever" and others a constant life of paranoia peering over your hill fort's walls incase a neighboring tribes is going to attack, loot your granary and kill you.
I mean 67 out of the 82 he landed with were killed within 3 days. That plays havoc with the chain of command. Che was only meant to be the doctor for the party and had to step up.
Regardless you're also forgetting Camilo Cienfuegos who was the official second in command of Fidel's faction. His politics were pretty opaque, presumably some sort of leftist but how radical unclear. He died in a plane crash towards the end of the revolution.
Definitely Fidel was kind of a Maoist in the streets (how he fought a protracted peoples war from the countryside through a dialectical relationship with the peasantry's needs) and a social democrat in the sheets (basically just wanted self determination for Cuba as a liberal democracy with welfare programs).
My 18th century ancestor having challenged someone to a duel at 25
*thinking about a second *
Look I thought it was weird when she said she was Jesus Christ's "little sister" but I liked it when she abolished foot binding.
I'm centrist, I think the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism is a good compromise between the opportunist social democrats and the adventurist ultra-left.
Taiping were weirdos but actually a historically progressive force, they wanted to end slavery/serfdom, and various other things.
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