Kevin Carson on Nostr: Ever since I read Parenti's "People's History of Ancient Rome," I want to spit every ...
Ever since I read Parenti's "People's History of Ancient Rome," I want to spit every time I see references to "austere Republican virtue" and the like. Cicero was spokesman for the equivalents of Eric Endicott funding the Klan, or Salvadoran landed oligarchs funding death squads. The people who denounced Caesar as a tyrant had themselves extrajudicially murdered popular leaders like the Gracchi, and supported far worse tyrants like Sulla.
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