Lol, get wrecked you marble licking, Caesar's Legion playthrough of IRL, strong men in weak times nonsense spouting, ahistorical 19th century dude bullshiting about a mideval dude's bullshit believing dweeb chuds. Rome had a trans Emperor who would have been able to crucify you.

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

tbf Caesar is a really interesting historic figure.

I got the Michael Parenti book, so it's ok

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm a History Guy but I generally have avoided the Dad History topics of the Romans, Crusades, Napoleon, Civil War and ww2. I've eventually had to deal with the last 4 to some extent but I will never ever study a battle. You can't make me. I've got the before and afters of Rome, I was super into ancient Greece as a kid and I'm currently very into mideval history and I've gotten my rome from a combination of those. I've had some shallow dives that I guess would be deep as hell to most and its super interesting but I've gotta finish my mideval jams before going back to slave empires, I almost have a comprehensive view of history for a materialist perspective that I could get around to writing something publishable about so I'm trying to fuck around less.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The French Revolution and it's immediate aftermath is critical to understanding the cultural and political climate that produced Marxism. Avoiding it is doing yourself a disservice.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I meant more the Napoleonic wars and it's specifics. I know the important shit, I just don't care about the Master and Commander stuff, aside from that movie which rules. That's more what I meant.

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