Re: [Marxism] How Rome's endless "war on terror" ended up -- an ahistorical thought for today

[Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

The terror question aside, the Roman model for degeneration through
imperial success is a very good one.

As had been pointed out, the reason the Republican Party of the 1850s
called itself "republican" not only because of the historic use of the
term in the US but because of the related indentification with the
contemporary European movements and to distinguish itself from
Democratic policies--the war of conquest against Mexico, the Indian
removals, the constant filibustering by the Southern faction,
etc.--all which the early Republicans tended to view as deplorably
"imperial."

The references to Roman history and the dangers of Ceasarism, etc.
were widely understood and accepted at one point in our history.
Regrettably, nowadays, this has all become Greek....or Latin.

ML

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