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Spartacus by Howard Fast5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet they died by the thousands fighting the slaves. ![]() ![]() When these troops went to fight Spartacus, they had less to defend than the slaves. Rome keeps a quarter of a million men under arms. These soldiers must be willing to go to foreign lands, to march their feet off, to live in filth and squalor, to wallow in blood-so that we may be safe and live in comfort and increase our personal fortunes. So the many, many people who have no slaves at all must be willing to die in order for us to have our slaves. We should not fall for the illusion that slaves like their masters. They don’t, and therefore the slaves will not protect us against the slaves. Also, people like ourselves have many slaves. Not only that, but those who have a great deal must guard their property, and therefore those who have nothing must be willing to die for the property of people like you and me and our good host Antonius. And those who have a great deal must be defended and protected by those who have nothing. You see, we live in a republic. That means that there are a great many people who have nothing and a handful who have a great deal. In a politician, people confuse it with honesty. ![]() “My one virtue, and an extremely valuable one. ![]()
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