True History: Michael Parenti – The Assassination of Julius Caesar

REDISCOVERING THE HISTORY OF ROME —Julius Caesar has been described by mostly conservative historians (and playwrights, like Shakespeare)—as an unscrupulous tyrant, a self-made dictator who, driven by ambition, callously destroyed Rome’s budding republic (an aristocratic republic, by the way, not a democracy). Accordingly his assassination has been regarded as a tragic but necessary act of remedial justice. The truth is alarmingly different, and the smear carried down the ages has a class origin: Caesar, like the Gracchi before him, was hated and eventually murdered by Rome’s aristocratic faction. His crime was to have been a genuine tribune of the people. Listen to Michael Parenti explain it all in this fascinating talk. —P. Greanville

FIRST PUBLISHED ON 15 MARCH 2015. REPOSTED HERE BY DEMAND.

Michael Parenti: a lifetime devoted to debunking the myths that support a global structure of exploitation.