One of the best and easily accessible historical books on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. And the ebook is free!
https://mises.org/library/new-deal-old-rome-0 On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:56 PM Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net wrote: > Socialism actshuallay has a greater purpose - to curb once great > empires, putting the brakes on the unrestrained "democracy" or > "soviet" dogma which is not so kindly in its imposition of itself > upon the empire's vassals. > > Rome had its legions, its entitled citizens and most importantly > entitled soldiers. > > Said soldiers received pay, to eat as they guarded the empire and > occasionally prosecuted a war or three. > > This was Rome's unsustainable entitlements program, which when > combined with the corruption and rapid decent of "the elite", brought > about the end of that ancient empire. > > It's an age old story - "benefits" such as "protection" and > "freedom", sold to the people in return for "your pithy tax dollars". > > America as with every empire before it likewise fails to curb itself > or to self regulate, instead increasing its despotic and corrupt > hand of power upon its vassals or the vassals it wants (e.g. > Venezuela today). Witness the USA's daily droning of humans to death > (with the help of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon etc) and not a > hint of a non ironic "fair trial pursuant to democracy". > > Enter stage right Socialism in the sanguine spinning, hair flouncing > Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders and a half dozen more > socialist tax-to-the-max agents who shall maximise those social > "Roman citizen entitlements" and thus belittle the voters, ensure > increasing dependency (on the government) and ultimately completely > enslaving the nation (nee empire) into le traditional black hole of > debt servitude and economic collapse. > > Thus as a happy coincidence for the rest of the world, this malignant > socialism curtails the militant and despotic empire. > > > > "Dangerous Ideas" Loom As Once Democratically Chosen, > There's No Reversing Socialism > > https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-25/dangerous-ideas-loom-once-democratically-chosen-theres-no-reversing-socialism >
