The indigenous system was a great leap forward, and so were the peoples' communes; in effect, this was another counter-paradigm, but it was now a counter-paradigm to a counter-paradigm.
Ce système indigène constituait un grand bond en avant, tout comme l'ont été les communes populaires. En fait, c'était un autre contre-paradigme, mais en l'occurrence le contre-paradigme d'un contre-paradigme.