Comment on Revolting!

• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holding out for a hero Caesar.

  tbqf, Crassus, while an immense shithead, was far from the worst politician in Rome at the time, unfortunately. Crassus occasionally did align with reformist causes.

  Also, if it makes you feel any better, Crassus supposedly ended up with a painful and humiliating death, having molten gold poured down his throat after being paraded as a prisoner by the Persians.

  Also, it should be remembered that the Third Servile War was not over the issue of slavery as an institution - just a desire to change who was free and who was enslaved.

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  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On that last bit, I’m not seeing much difference. It’s not like if the repressed won that they’d all just suddenly let bygones be bygones & let those currently at the top just live out their lives peacefully (as if those types of people even could.)

    The more things change, the more they stay the same, & all that.

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While one should always remain wary of that happening, I would like to emphasize that philosophical (and thus ideological) thinking has come a long way since antiquity. Fighting for high principles - and seeing them carried through - is possible, and does still happen.

      By lacking a robust philosophical framework with which to envision a society entirely without slavery, on the other hand, the slave revolts of antiquity were robbed of even the possibility of carrying forward such high ideals.

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      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Such enlightened attitudes among the populace at large requires a strong educational system to instill such thinking, which is probably part of the reason educational system funding has long been a target for the power-hungry.

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