• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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”

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      8 months ago

      Socialism is at some point on the scale of private property is collectively managed

      Which did happen for pretty much every society pre-capitalism… which includes Rome.