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Re: The Last Days of the American Republic

> paul phillips wrote:
>
> Has anyone on pen-l read this?  If so, what reaction?

When someone treats the Roman Republic as though it were any more a
democracy than the Roman Empire, I began to wonder about the whole
analysis. The Roman Republic was (a) a tyranny and (b) every bit as
imperialist as the empire. Athens was a democracy. It was also
imperialist. The democracy survived until Alexander destroyed it from
outside.

Carrol
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