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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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When they hold up "ancient rome" as a model for our society, this is what they mean. These are the values that the USA regime was founded on.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

I’m just straight calling them Nazis at this point. If they hate the assimilation, they can do something about it, immediately, justified. But nope. Straight supporting daytime killers with donations.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week 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 4 points 6 days ago

You know they all want as many as possible.