[Marxism] The Coronation of the New Emperor

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You got the wrong Roman Emperor
 in Augustus.
(smile). Actually, the better parallel
 might be
a Pharoah (smile)

CB

 [*] I (Jim Devine) found this: >>Is history repeating itself? Note quite 2000 
years
> ago, the Roman hegemony got its first black leader - a former senator
> whose father was African and mother was white. Septimius Severus
> inherited a failed military campaign in Iraq and an ailing economy. He
> first resolves the situation in Iraq, undertakes a number of new
> building projects, stamps out governmental corruption, raises taxes to
> pay for wage increases (and kicks British arse a few times).
> Ultimately though, it all might have only hastened the Empire's
> decline.<< from:
> http://www.metafilter.com/77225/Septimius-Severus-the-Barack-Obama-of-the-Roman-Empire
>  
>





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