For Dives was a very ambitious man, to whom wealth and power were synonymous terms. Crassus manipulated this financially sensitive organisation like a modern Tammany Hall boss. And just as his modern antitypes, the Rothschilds, used their vast wealth to acquire political influence at the courts and in the parliaments of modern Europe, so did the ancient Dives with regard to that highly susceptible organisation of financial corruption and political jobbery, which, in the first century BC, concealed its nefarious activities behind the high-sounding title of ‘the Senate and People of Rome’. In such a plutocratic society as was that of the Roman Republic, money was power. By buying confiscated property cheap and selling dear, the Praetor had become the richest man in Rome and had well earned his soubriquet of ‘Dives’. He had made a huge fortune out of the misfortunes of his opponents in the civil war. Crassus was, indeed, the most successful representative of the new usurious capitalism that was just then coming into power in Roman society. These activities were, however, subordinate to his main social aim: the acquisition of personal wealth. An adherent of the plutocratic party, Crassus was an experienced soldier and politician who had fought with distinction in the Roman Civil Wars and played a leading role in the political life of the Roman state. Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives (the Rich), the new Roman commander-in-chief, the leader of the Roman plutocracy, was a man whose career was highly representative of the age in which he lived and of the class to which he belonged. Francis Ambrose Ridley 1944 Chapter IV: ‘Rothschild’ Versus the Revolution Spartacus: A Study in Revolutionary History. Spartacus: A Study in Revolutionary History by Francis Ambrose Ridley 1944
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