The Peruvian Marxist Mariategui calls the Incas a "socialist economy"; Prescott compares the Incas to imperial China. Which is correct?

by englishrestoration

"On the ruins and remnants of a [Peruvian] socialist economy, they [the Spanish] established the bases of a feudal economy."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/essay01.htm

"A closer resemblance – as I have more than once taken occasion to notice – may be found between the Peruvian institutions and some of the despotic governments of Eastern Asia...Such were the Chinese, who the Peruvians resembled in their implicit obedience to authority, their mild yet somewhat stubborn temper, their solicitude for forms, their reverence for ancient usage, their skill in the minuter manufactures, their imitative rather than inventive cast of mind, and their invincible patience, which serves instead of an adventurous spirit for the execution of difficult undertakings.

A still closer analogy may be found with the natives of Hindostan in their division into castes, their worship of the heavenly bodies and the elements of nature, and their acquaintance with the scientific principles of husbandry. To the ancient Egyptians, also, they bore considerable resemblance in the same particulars..."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Conquest_of_Peru/wVJEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=spread+of+humans+to+america+original+settlement&pg=PA167&printsec=frontcover

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