- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2008
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Non-fiction
- Author(s)/Director(s):
- Neil Faulkner
- Best Performance(s):
- None
- Premiss:
- The Roman Empire was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.
- Theme(s):
- Totalitarianism
- Political Correctness
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- Book
Although intended for the general reader, this is a repetitive look at the Western Roman Empire from its relevance to the new American Empire of today and its inescapable law of diminishing returns.
It contains few insights other than stale Marxist political analyses, in sad contradistinction to its thesis that Rome was not the civilising polity many White Europeans today claim it was. Yet, Western Culture has no better historical antecedent to derive its sense of identity - so they are stuck with it as a (debased) role model.
As the current War in Iraq is fought for democracy and freedom (really, oil, profit & US power), so the Roman Empire’s creators spun its carnage and looting to enrich a few as peace, law and civilisation. Rome imploded because systematic exploitation always lays the foundations for its own internecine demise.
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