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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Ahh yes, so much for the hobbesian myth of a "secure" and "peaceful" monarchy

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