Seriously, did not expect this much easily comparable shit coming out of the mouths of elites. It’s the same exact rhetoric used by conservatives and other anti-communist mouthpieces today.
I never disagreed that Amerika was Rome 2.0., but wow did I not know the extent of it. First tragedy, then farce.
Polybius and Cicero really be out here saying “we should take the best of both capitalism AND socialism” in the years of our lord ~200-40 B.C.
Also, a call to see that the ones owning metalurgy in the chalcolithic, having the monopoly on copper production by family and clan, before the bronze age, where the main elite.
Yeah, that’s the class society, means of production and military power always gravitate to the same people. If they are held by different classes, the one end up dominating and swallowing the other pretty fast.