TalkingStickTV - Michael Parenti - The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Talk by Michael Parenti author of "The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome" given April 5, 1998 in Seattle.

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[Slavestorms]

History is always repeating. This time we have no Caesar granting land & economic reforms for the working people. We have oligarchs bringing in the police state & we will all soon be economic slaves on spaceship earth

Our benevolent leaders give us plenty of bogeymen to fear like global warming, terrorists on every corner, economic hardship & the BOMB. oh I'm so scared please save me father figure police state leader

Divide & conquer, keep divided, keep conquered. A simple, effective strategy

[paulDIAT]

The people that comment on these kind of videos are probably the only intelligent people one will ever find on YouTube. Whoever is smart enough to understand this, and patient enough to listen through it all deserves my attention and my read.

[emotionalinvalid]

Another great speech by both a great and down to earth man: Michael Parenti

[Lifeinthemix]

We have to consider the Brennius intrusion in Rome around 290 BC, from which the oligarch scenario was formed. The House of Judah cannot be left out of history.

[xMaXiMuSx]

Real Conservatism has an honorable tradition as Chomsky would say... parenti does NOT make a distinction between conservatism and reactionism.. that's a big flaw in him.

[Trevor m]

"Infamy, infamy - they've all got it in for me". The real hero of the Roman senate was Tiberius. Is fellow consuls battered him to death with clubs because he had the temerity to stand up for poor farmers being thrown off their land to make way for aristocrats. After his death, he was so venerated in Rome they named the river Tiber after him as well as a later Emperor. But how many school kids have even heard of him?

[SPRoubi2020]

The people, in fact, we are they.

[destinysbane]

Cicero: "...they throw our assemblies into chaos" sounds like Ron Paul supporters, haha

[shifragri]

Interesting how the conservatives always project their own vices onto their opponents.

[communistfun]

too bad for the romans that caesar wasn't more like lenin, caesar would have had no issue if he had just locked up the scoundrels

[homelessengineer]

Cicero was bad enough, he was a man of his times, corruption is relative. If he were around today in our "enlightened" times, would he be considered corrupt? I don't know. I'd like to think he would have been progressive and enlightened himself and deplore a life such as his own in ancient Rome. So I have a hard time condemming him completely, but he was pretty bad. He thought the common man pretty much worthless.

[JoshReflek]

awesome, this should be suggested viewing for anyone who wants to participate in the empty action of voting.