Diary (June 30, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday June 30, 2020.

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Cicero

Cicero was a fawning climber, a tool of the Optimates (the "best people"), and a self-promoting, self-delighting hypocrite who reveled in his petty triumphs, among other reprehensible qualities.

See: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome

By Michael Parenti

New Press, New York, 2003

https://www.marxists.org/.../backiss/vol8/no4/gray.html

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