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neptath  ·  4104 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy

    Each citizen of the empire was issued the necessities of life out of the state storehouses, including food, tools, raw materials, and clothing, and needed to purchase nothing

    Instead of paying taxes in money, every Incan was required to provide labor to the state. In exchange for this labor, they were given the necessities of life.

This sounds like Communism to me, no?