Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tsarin zamantakewar al'umma da ra'ayoyin da ke tallafawa mallakar jama'a ko mallakar jama'a sun wanzu tun zamanin da. Tattalin arzikin daular Mauryan ta karni na 3 KZ na Indiya, cikakken masarauta, wasu masana sun bayyana shi a matsayin "masarautar zamantakewa" da "wani nau'in zamantakewar zamantakewar al'umma" saboda "daidaita masana'antu". Sauran masana sun ba da shawarar cewa abubuwan da ke cikin tunanin gurguzu sun kasance a cikin siyasar masana falsafa na Girka Plato da Aristotle. Mazdak ƙarami (ya mutu c. 524 ko 528 CE), wani ɗan asalin ɗan asalin ɗan asalin Farisa, ya kafa dukiyar jama'a kuma ya ba da shawarar amfanin jama'a. Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Abokin Muhammad, marubuta da yawa sun yaba shi a matsayin babban magabata na zamantakewar Islama. Koyarwar Yesu galibi ana bayyana ta a matsayin zamantakewa, musamman ta hanyar kiristocin gurguzu. ya rubuta cewa a cikin cocin farko a Urushalima "[n] babu wanda ya yi iƙirarin cewa duk wani abin da suke da shi nasa ne", kodayake tsarin ba da daɗewa ba ya ɓace daga tarihin coci sai dai a cikin monasticism. Kiristanci na zamantakewa ya kasance daya daga cikin abubuwan da suka kafa jam'iyyar Labour na Birtaniya kuma an yi ikirarin farawa da
tashin hankali na Wat Tyler da John Ball a karni na 14 CE. Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Faransa, masu fafutuka da masana ra'ayi irin su François-Noël Babeuf, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Philippe Buonarroti da Auguste Blanqui sun yi tasiri a farkon ayyukan Faransa da ƙungiyoyin gurguzu. A Biritaniya, Thomas Paine ya ba da cikakken tsari don harajin masu mallakar dukiya don biyan bukatun matalauta a cikin "Agrarian Justice" yayin da Charles Hall ya rubuta "Abubuwan Civilization a kan Mutane a cikin Ƙasashen Turai", yana nuna tasirin jari-hujja a kan matalauta na lokacinsa. Wannan aikin ya rinjayi makircin Thomas Spence.