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Ep. 114: Crossing the Rubicon

Young Heretics

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Did Caesar Have Another Choice?

In caesar's account of this momentous moment, there is no rubicon moment. And yet caesar kind of portrays it, at least as if this was just one stage that they then continued to negotiate. Machiavelli says that when class conflict exasperates itself those in power do everything they can to keep power. The question becomes, did he have another choice? Was there anything else that he could have done?"

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