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Remember the time Spartacus led a paid worker rebellion
You gotta hand it to em, it sure doesn't sound like communism to me.
What's really hilarious is the fact elite Romans despised the primitive capitalists amongst their midst, it's almost like Roman society was defined by landed nobles who relied on slave labor to generate accumulation for the sake of status and luxury and not capital gains through the exploitation of a working class for the sake of reinvestment in productive assets
The debased money grubber was an archetype in Roman literature, and yet these dipshits still think Roman society was defined by capitalism lmao
Yeah. Publicani, usually cited as example of protocapitalist ventures, were bashed even by the people from aristocracy doing exactly the same thing, but personally by the office instead of equites forming an company.
Wait a second, is that some of the dreaded example of “The history of all hitherto existing human society is the history of class struggles.”? Oh oh no, we need immediately derail the line of thoughts into some romaboo nitpicking of legionnary armour details!
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/756f0f84-7d0a-4a03-a366-237fb277c35c.png?format=webp
Why is it that libs never know what capitalism is? And could this pretentious asshat be more reductive than this? All it takes to disregard Roman society as either capitalist or communist (who would even claim that it was communist lol) is to look at the class structure of the Roman society.
And gosh, calling yourself Publius like you're some expert on the Roman empire and then acting smug and dumb as a bag of rocks means it's definitely a white right-winger.
A block, a stone, a worse than senseless thing. This man has forgotten great Pompey.
To be fair to poor Publius, state of his nose suggest severe longtime overdose of something nasty.
Nah they got around that by calling them slaves.
Then again the soldiers didn't exactly always get paid so really they weren't known for paying workers