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For Roman Workers, Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 day ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally exploited labor made it all possible.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When they hold up "ancient rome" as a model for our society, this is what they mean. These are the values that the USA regime was founded on.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

I’m just straight calling them Nazis at this point. If they hate the assimilation, they can do something about it, immediately, justified. But nope. Straight supporting daytime killers with donations.