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.
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.