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Capitalist forces absolutely are not inevitable with scarcity. Native Americans lived in societies that have been described as primitive communism. Did they not have scarcity?
Further, mass murder is not a prerequisite for communism.
Native Americans made war with each other. It wasn’t an idea that was introduced to them by colonizers.
And Native Americans were at near constant war with each other prior to European settlement. No competition at all eyeroll