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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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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Roman empire was a shithole of rape and slave culture. If anyone idolizes it ask how many slaves they'd like to have and if their parents would have killed them or sold them as a slave/uterus.

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

You know they all want as many as possible.