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The Bronze Age palace economies, whilst centrally planned to an extent, lack the necessary "utopian" vision to be truly proto-commie in my view. No Pharaoh ever wanted to create a classless utopia and when he didn't want them for building monuments, he mostly left his workers to their own...

Still not a bad equivalent. The Egypt of the Pharaoh's was the most glorious civilisation of its era. On that topic, a huge problem with the proto-commie comparison there is that the Egyptians were actually good farmers. Commies and farming don't go together.

Cusco. The beating heart of the Inca Empire. That city was on track to become the Rome of South America, if not the Americas in general.