/lit/ - Literature

>>20726492
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Hey /lit/, I'm looking for an essential readings list on political science and its related subjects. Infographs are appreciated, as well as your own personal takes.

>>15902574
I find it somewhat baffling and downright funny to see the paradoxical historical connections between roman families and factions that produced men like Pompey and Caesar. Pompey, hailing from an upjumped 'homo novus' pleb family would later lead the senatorial optimates faction, a faction which historically opposed the interests of plebs and equestrians. Caesar, hailing from an ancient patrician family older than the republic itself, would come to lead the populare faction which was born out of the specifically anti-senatorial campaigns of first the Gracchi brothers (ancient patricians themselves) and then the continuous reprisals against gracchan-type plebeian and rural interests. Propelled by precedents set earlier which broke the famed mos maiorum (the unwritten laws of custom), like Aemilianus' move to raise personal legions from his client-list or the repeated exemptions from age requirements for consular office and property requirements for becoming a legionary, these men, having learned and experienced that might indeed makes right, would come to dominate public affairs and shape the course of future western civilization forever.

One could say that the caesarian/pompeian split still exists within collective consciousness, as it is "patrician" sons seeking lost glory like Trump who still play populare politics, and "plebeian" upjumps seeking new glory and patrician benefactors as Clinton and Obama did. What we lack for now is the murder of the gracchans for all this to repeat.