A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru

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2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Many social scientists have attempted to lump the unique Inca society into brand new political and economic categories. Louis Baudin argued that Incan society used to be socialistic. He claimed that the ayllu system is what classified the Inca as a system of state socialism. Baudin defines state socialism as being according to the idea of the regulative action of a central power in social relations. In keeping with Baudin, the idea of private property in Europe had been in existence for centuries, but no such idea existed at the times of the Incas. He claims, that society in Peru rested on a foundation of collective ownership which, to a certain extent, facilitated its establishment, since the effacement of the person within a group prepared him to allow himself to be absorbed. Baudin argued that the higher ranking Incas tried, and succeeded to an extent, to force a degree of uniformity at the common Inca. The Inca were forced to dress in a similar way, eat the similar food, practice the similar religion, and speak the similar language, Quechua.

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