• Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml
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    I’ve been rereading 1491. It’s got a lot of good information but sometimes just slaps you in the face with liberalism. At one point it said Stalin and Mao would be jealous of the Inka’s mass relocations of conquered populations.

    • Violet 🏳️‍⚧️ @lemmygrad.mlBanned
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      Not the first, neither the last time it will happen. The Peruvian Marxist-Leninist thinker José Carlos Mariategui used to refer positively about Incan times, where, in his opinion, the natives would practice primitive communism, with a somewhat collective ownership of the means of production until the arrival of the Spanish, who would conquer the natives and implement feudalism in Peru.

      edit: at least, its that what i remember from reading his 7 Essays.