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A Aristocrat Controled corrupt and incompotent Republic is by far supperior to a de facto fascist dictatorship.
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The Roman Republic government was in fact thoroughly oligarchical. I prefer Caesar to a corrupt aristocratic oligarchy.
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I did not compare him to Hitler then beyond the stated that popularity does not determine wether he is a dictator or not, but I never said they couldn't be compared.
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He was one of the many Hitlers of his day, how can you pretend to call him virtuous!
When you call Caesar a Hitler, you mean it in terms of popularity, right?
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Thoose political opponents were people who were planing an overthrow of the senate and a march on Rome. I would hardly call Cicero the bad guy in this event.
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The fact is Cicero showed himself more than willing to suspend the writ and execute men without trial. Little evidence was presented by Cicero in his case against Catiline, and the two men had been bitter political enemies for years. Cicero had good motive to disposes of his long-time political rivals.
"decadent"
How?
"farcical"
How?
Bribery, extortion, assassinations, etc.
"ineffectual"
Better then an effective tyrant.
They were all tyrants in their own right.
"incompetent"
Yah and I can name all the politicians on one hand who were not incompotent throughout all history.
I could name even more incomptent, corrupt ones.
"obsolete"
So I supose modern Republics are obsolete as well?
Rome had ceased to be a republic centuries before Caesar took power, if it ever was at all. It was an aristocratic oligarchy.
Name me one emporer who wasn't an aristocrat.
Maximinius, Diocletian (son of a slave), Maximian, Carausius, Magnus Maximus, Petronius Maximus, Pertinax (son of a slave), Maximinus Thrax, Galerius (son of a peasant), Maximinus II Daia (Galerius's nephew), Licinianus, Constantius I (father of Constantine the Great, grandfather of emperors Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans, Julian) Jovian.