27
What is your opinion on the Roman senator Cicero?
(lemmygrad.ml)
Many people seem to have a favorable opinion of him, for supposedly defending the Roman republic during its collapse, but seeing his history and actions he did everything to defend the interests of the Roman elite to the detriment of the Roman population, and abused the system against their enemies when it was convenient and was a landowner famous for building the buildings in a horrible shape. Still, it has a reputation for having defenders to this day.
I'm with Engels on this one.
other stuff about him
Cicero abhorred revolutionaries as mentally unwell and deranged.
Here his spinelessness displays proudly, as he argues for a mixed [political] economy: something that takes the best from all three forms of governance; kingship, aristocracy, and democracy.
He's been the ruling class's guy from his first oration to millennia beyond his death. He bore nothing but contempt for the masses and sought whatever opportunities he could that would make his pathetic life more comfortable at their expense.
Peoples' histories will eventually relegate him to the prestigious honor of having been the creator of one of the world's first gender neutral restrooms. 🪦🚻
quotes from The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti
Funnily enough, he was also an archetypical liberal, being homo novus in Roman establishment, he ceaslessly bootlicked guys who really despised him, but opposed those that respected him. His death was fitting when he insulted the wrong guy and none of his "esteemed colleagues" lifted a finger to defend him.