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    Read somewhere
    Wherein the Incas
    Were 'commies'

    Anyone know about there economic system?
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    Yeah, I read they were socialistic too. Here's an article I posted on this site that mentions that: Click here: Socialism in Latin America
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    They have the same vision of life as the great communist thinkers but tey didn't see It as a political system.It was more like a religeous way of life for them.
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    The Incas were the most powerful South American Empire. They hada population of 12 million and we far more sophisticated then most of the tribes around them. They were defeated through the treachery of the Spaniard scum, Pizarro. The Aztecs are more interesting however.
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    Like the Native Americans the Incas were defeated essentially from disease.
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    Yes, but the fact that they couldnt unite after the emperor's death also caused their defeat.
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    the incan economic system was based in slavery and you could become slave by either be captured after a batle or when you contracted too many debts (like in the pre-democratic greek system) thats all i know about theyr economy.
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    Guess how Tupac got his name! (Tupac Amaru) the last INCA emperor...Shakir's mom weas a Black Panther
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    Strictly speaking the Incas had an Asiatic Mode of Production. This is something about which Marx and Engels did not write much about. The system was based on the collective ownership of the land which was worked in a collective way by the "ayllu", the Incan comune based on blood links. But above this propertlyless structure there was a hierarchycal state dominated by a military caste. People, apart from working in the land in a collective way were forced to work in public works for a certain number of days every year, and the ayllu had to pay tributes to the state and the priest caste out of their work.

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    They had socialized medicine too...but I HATE reading those QUIPUS!
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    I just wiped out the Incas in Civilization 3.

    It was pretty easy, they fell because they only had horseback riding technology and had just acquired gunpowder and I had already developed tanks.

    I don't know what their society life was like but I think they were still in depotism, but I could be wrong.
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    Quote: from Mazdak on 9:44 pm on Oct. 5, 2002
    The Aztecs are more interesting however.
    For obvious reasons...

    In find the Incas most interesting though. They weren't that "barbarian".
    I won't call a society built on slavery communistic though.
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