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Tiberius Gracchus proposes a moderate public-land reform and is killed because the nobility treats the state itself as its property.
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Land reform
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The Gracchi brothers proposed land reform in which Rome would buy rich occupants out of illegally held common land and redistribute it to the poor for subsistence and food security.
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As consul, Caesar pushes land reform and seeks Gaul for glory, while the optimates try to block him by assigning the next consul to Italy where wars and triumphs are impossible.
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He argues that the Gracchi brothers proposed mild land reform, but Roman elites treated public land as private property and killed the reformers rather than concede anything.
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Jiang characterizes Gracchus's land reform as common-sense redistribution of public land to poor people and highlights his murder by senatorial aristocrats as proof of elite resistance to even modest reform.
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"Okay? This is one of the most radical turning points in Roman history. So, right now, there's massive inequality in Rome. The nobility have..."
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"No one's using this stuff. Give it to the people to work to generate more wealth for our society. We have more tax revenue...."
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"So the first major reformers were the Gracchi brothers. Tiberius Gracchus. And his reform, and her reform platform was the most innocuous, the most..."
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"Look, the reality is that it's not just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is..."
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"...these are, again, lower nobility who had a very simple idea, land reform. Okay? The idea is very simple. You have rich people who..."
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"Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this..."
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"...to do, and promote stability in Rome. Okay? So, he's promoting land reform. And here, the optimists try to obstruct him wherever they can...."
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"...rally the people he can't see the debt he um implements land reform he becomes a monarchy but the problem with the monarchy is..."
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"...launches legislative reform to reform the Roman Republic, okay? He launches land reform. He launches debt relief. He creates something called the Julian calendar."
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