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There was this similiar kind of nonsense in the late 1980s, with matriarchy as model not for socialism but for feminism (Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade). I don't think that after the 1930s, at least in Central Europe, there is a way to "return" to such "roots". They have to be imagined anew, and via imagination, planted into the mind's soil. The rest is biased cherry picking, not just bad historiography but ideological fundamentalism not dissimiliar to how the Nazis tried to pick up and use the ideology of the "primordial community" (Hermann Wirth et al.).
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