Prussian Socialism Episode 16: The Disintegration of the Roman Republic
In 202 BC, the Roman Republic was at its height. It had beaten Carthage its most dangerous rival in the Western Mediterranean and was now free to go on a career of expansion and exploitation.
In the following 50 years it conquered Greece, much of Spain and north Africa. The Romans got filthy rich. But in the next 70 years it began to break down, a victim of its own success. The Patricians became greedy and undutiful, snatching up land and gold and squeezing the soldiers and peasants ever harder.
After the final defeats of Carthage and Greece in 146 BC, a series of politicians tried to combat the ills that were tearing the Republic apart. In this lecture, Gregory Conte discusses the lives of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Marius and Sulla. It them, we see the sort of men and the sort of methods it will take to overcome America's own political problems.
Gay Greek stuff… lmao!
MP3s are perennial, everlasting. Streaming audio linked from RSS readers is ephemeral, disposable, and quickly forgotten.
That outro/sendoff caught me off guard, had to catch myself from throwing a Roman at work, lmao.
The two essential problems with Roman society were slavery and usury, which it was impossible to reform unfortunately. The editor of the old Instauration magazine was a bit of a Nordicist and anti-Hitler/anti-NS to a degree. He thought the Gracchi brothers were class traitors and in his mind the class struggle in Rome was the Nordic Roman elite vs. the Mediterranean plebs. This is radically wrong. Whatever the subracial differences between the Roman elite and the plebs, they were united in a need for a social compromise that ameliorated the dysfunctional excess of the late Roman republic. That this didn’t… Read more »
I’m always skeptical of people who try to give hyper-racial explanations for this stuff. On what evidence are they basing their claims? I think that those sort of explanations make us look ridiculous. Race matters, but you can’t presuppose that if a nation was succeeding, it was because it was Nordic. Look at Sweden or Norway today. There are clearly rises and falls within sub-races. Italy was at a peak in the 200s BC. Spain was at a peak in the 1500s. Nords are great, but it really seems to be stretching it to attribute all great civilizational achievements to… Read more »
I mean the diffrence between nords and meds is diffrent proportions of neolitic-farmer blood vs indo-european blood. If we talk about civilisational stuff like building cities and writing, protomeds did that before the indo-europeans showed up.
I see MP3 download link, pleb is happy.
I would think that the best selection process for leadership of a state would be to pass through the Hitler Youth followed by the SS.
Wow the Romans were pos
Edit: Roman government*
Where is the fucking download link.??
Ok nevermind. The mp3 is definitely on odysee.. used to be only video downloads on odysee which took a long time
While I know you prefer to talk about admirable figures of our history like Julius Caesar and less on the likes of Nero and Caligula, I would love to see your insights on the empire in the 1st century to contrast Rome at its height with America at its height since I feel there has been a lot of distortions and retcons in order for modern scholars to make that connection. Also this period whether it’s the rise of Christianity or the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple has had a profound effect on European civilization and our relationship with… Read more »
Wait…. Wait… what happened to Prussian socialism? Don’t get me wrong Greg, Roman and Greek history is fascinating, but do you know how many Kings and Generals videos I’ve watched? At least a billion. I would love to know more about the HRE, the Habsburgs the Hohenzollerns, and the Teutonic knights. In fact, I hardly know anything about the Teutonic knights outside of the European crusade against Lithuania, and my first tattoo was an iron cross. I’m sure there are some juicy tidbits with their relationship with Poland and the HRE and Sweden. Love to hear something from you on… Read more »
He explained he was busy with IRL events so the Rome topics are easy for him to prep since it’s the main wheelhouse. You should be thankful Greg even prepared shows these past few weeks.
I’m getting back to that. Next week the plan is to talk about FM Manstein’s book, and the week after that to talk about Goethe’s Faust part 1. Trying to line some more stuff up beyond that.
Nigga you gay
Please to be uploading MP3.
+1, please add an mp3 link for us grugs wirhout an RRS feed setup. Also just wanted to say, great speech Greg.
You can download the audio from Odysee too.
Close ticket
Cato the elder- John McCain… ouch that’s rough on my guy Cato
I’m loving the Roman history, keep it up Greg. The last episode about the rise of Rome was your best yet.
The Napoleon episode was probably my favourite.
Because you’re 5’8