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.
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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.
Note that it is precisely how the first class society formed there. Priests used the religion as ideological leverage and superstructure to take ownership of the means of production which were at first owned by entire society and only administered by them. Entire priestly caste started essentially as clerks. Hell, first human we know by name - Kushim - was not a king or hero but priest and a clerk (though it could be also a title or office, but context suggest name). First temples were literally storage and distribution centers.
The first therm for war, literally meant "one god fighting against other", when the main sacerdot declared a fight against another city, and it ended when THE FUCKING TEMPLE AND IDOL WHERE CAPTURED. The fucking Bible is even a compendium of this mentality and the struggle between the monarchy against the sacerdocy.
And people here pretending history and class struggled began in the fucking Industrial Revolution, having to endure opportunist theocracist motherfuckers larping as socialists.
I doubt people HERE have problem with that, and libs elswhere cathegorically refuse to even acknowledge class war exist and only use the term "class" in liberal meaning of overall wealth or income instead of the relation to the means of production.
And bourgeois historians are the same.
Marx famously wrote:
With Engels later added as the knowledge about prehistory expanded:
But to admit there was a class struggle in the past would mean admitting the Marx was right and the class struggle is going now too. Parenti have few words about this.