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Caesar, Weber, and the Power of Charisma

Political Theory 101

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Is There a Realistic Chance of Installing a Green Caesar?

Land in the ancient world is the basis for time because if you've got land then you've got slaves to work the land. And so when you're talking about land ownership in a Roman context what you'retalking about is time concentration. So these concentrations are not just purely economic or purely material, they reach into every other element of society. That's the kind of problem that if you can't solve institutionally you do tend to get this agitation for something to break through.

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