the roman structure of violence was a police state even if it didn’t go by that name. “no cops” includes cops who didn’t call themselves cops.
Which cops were those? What functions were carried out by this segment of the population which were cops, but according to you, had no name?
This is apart from the issue that ‘police’ and ‘police state’ are not synonymous.
further, the roman patrician created a patriarchal racial hierarchy in which they violently oppressed anyone they deemed too different from themselves.
What.
That’s not even close.
the primary necessity of the roman legion was to create a standing army to enforce the senate’s strangle hold of rome’s control of “their” region.
… the Legions weren’t even a standing army until Augustus’s time. They were ad-hoc militia until the Late Republic, and then temporarily-raised units from then until the Empire. Nor was garrison duty a major function of the mid-Republican Legions.
they even created illusory merit based positions amongst their ranks but still treated proletariat and plebian who demonstrated merit as an under clase to the patricians called the “novo homo”
That’s not at all what ‘novo homo’ means. The plebeian/patrician divide was functionally dead by the early 3rd century BCE, and even before that, primarily related to candidacy for specific offices. Fuck, for that matter, even patrician families could include novi homines.
the thing you gotta understand about Ur-Fascismo is that it has been present in every civilization since grain was first domesticated. the only thing that changed in the 1840s is that we named opposition to it “anarchism” and in the 1920s it named itself fascism. i even think we ought to stop calling fascism fascism since that’s what it wants us to call it and start calling it by a name that is inherently embarassing like “groompftisch grunglitime” but that’s net necessarily an expedient way to go about life since you’d have to explain to groompftish grunglites why you’re calling them that
“Everything that isn’t anarchism is fascism” is not a particularly useful way to use the term ‘fascism’, for… numerous reasons.
Which cops were those? What functions were carried out by this segment of the population which were cops, but according to you, had no name?
This is apart from the issue that ‘police’ and ‘police state’ are not synonymous.
What.
That’s not even close.
… the Legions weren’t even a standing army until Augustus’s time. They were ad-hoc militia until the Late Republic, and then temporarily-raised units from then until the Empire. Nor was garrison duty a major function of the mid-Republican Legions.
That’s not at all what ‘novo homo’ means. The plebeian/patrician divide was functionally dead by the early 3rd century BCE, and even before that, primarily related to candidacy for specific offices. Fuck, for that matter, even patrician families could include novi homines.
“Everything that isn’t anarchism is fascism” is not a particularly useful way to use the term ‘fascism’, for… numerous reasons.