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.