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=== Formation === | === Formation === | ||
The populist general Julius Caesar won the civil war of the [[Roman Republic (509–27 BCE)|Roman Republic]] in 45 BCE but was soon assassinated. [[Mark Antony]] and [[Augustus|Octavian]], the leaders of his faction defeated the pro-Senate opposition of [[Brutus]] and [[Cassius]] but then went to war against each other, with Octavian (renamed Augustus) becoming a military dictator and proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome.<ref name=":05">{{Citation|author=Neil Faulkner|year=2013|title=A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals|chapter=Ancient Empires|page=45|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedljwr5izotdclz23o3c5p4di4t3ero3ncbfytip55slhiz4otuls?filename=Neil%20Faulkner%20-%20A%20Marxist%20History%20of%20the%20World_%20From%20Neanderthals%20to%20Neoliberals-Pluto%20Press%20%282013%29.pdf|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=9781849648639|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=91CA6C708BFE15444FE27899217FBA8E}}</ref> | The populist general Julius Caesar won the civil war of the [[Roman Republic (509–27 BCE)|Roman Republic]] in 45 BCE but was soon assassinated. [[Mark Antony]] and [[Augustus|Octavian]], the leaders of his faction defeated the pro-Senate opposition of [[Brutus]] and [[Cassius]] but then went to war against each other, with Octavian (renamed Augustus) becoming a military dictator and proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome.<ref name=":05">{{Citation|author=Neil Faulkner|year=2013|title=A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals|chapter=Ancient Empires|page=45|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedljwr5izotdclz23o3c5p4di4t3ero3ncbfytip55slhiz4otuls?filename=Neil%20Faulkner%20-%20A%20Marxist%20History%20of%20the%20World_%20From%20Neanderthals%20to%20Neoliberals-Pluto%20Press%20%282013%29.pdf|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=9781849648639|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=91CA6C708BFE15444FE27899217FBA8E}}</ref> | ||
== Mode of production == | == Mode of production == |