Socialism is at some point on the scale of private property is collectively managed, therefore advancing towards a classless society. A society with slaves, by definition, cannot be socialist.
Or, in other words, between that and literally everything else about Rome, only a real clown of a person would say something like “Rome was more socialist than any modern society”
Not sure what the point of linking a Wikipedia page for a basic fact everyone learns in 3rd grade is.
Socialism is at some point on the scale of private property is collectively managed, therefore advancing towards a classless society. A society with slaves, by definition, cannot be socialist.
Or, in other words, between that and literally everything else about Rome, only a real clown of a person would say something like “Rome was more socialist than any modern society”
Which did happen for pretty much every society pre-capitalism… which includes Rome.