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>and that it is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire What a totally ridiculous comparison. The roman empire always was an explicit a dictatorial state. I
by constantcrying 1y ago
>and that it is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire
What a totally ridiculous comparison. The roman empire always was an explicit a dictatorial state. Its end took hundreds of years of internal and external forces tearing it apart as coherent entity. Characterizing it as two factions fighting for power is just bizarre.
- greesil 1y agoMaybe he meant the of the Roman Republic, like with the optimates and so on.
- coliveira 1y agoThe end of the Roman Empire was due to a civil war, where the Church was one of the parties embraced by Constantin.
- sevensor 1y agoThat’s far from accurate. Augustus positioned himself as the restorer of the Republic after a horrific period of civil war, and cobbled together his authority from existing Republican magistracies, especially the Tribune of the Plebs. The Julio-Claudians at least attempted to maintain the fiction that the Republic was still functioning. Explicitly dictatorial it wasn’t, although actually dictatorial it certainly was.