Was Louis XIV a socialist?

[AtorBoltox]

He supported public works people!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Absolutely, but remember it was Henry VIII that created the first welfare state system.

[AtorBoltox]

The proletariat will also forever be grateful to Comrade von Bismarck for building the German welfare state.

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Sargon of Akkad was clearly the first ever socialist.

[parochial boy]

Le prolétariat, c'est moi

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

wrong polling options.

these should have been the polling options.

[Lumine]

Those were the days... Who needs Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg when compared to comrade Turenne and comrade de la Valliere?

[Santander]

French = socialist

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Genghis Khan - extreme statist (anti-free initiative public works scheme to erect mountains of human skulls)

[Virginiá]

Genghis Khan - extreme statist (anti-free initiative public works scheme to erect mountains of human skulls)

lmbo

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Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Indeed. This was something that should've been left to charities. If charities can't do the job, it's not the government's fault.

Putting the fire down would do far greater longterm damage: damage to the spirit of private initiative, demeaning people into accepting a handout. We should respect the invisible fire of markets.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Sargon of Akkad was clearly the first ever socialist.

The planned temple economies of Uruk and other cities were there much earlier.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

Let's just say he was a maverick.

[Kingpoleon]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

Let's just say he was a maverick.

I think Tsar* Nero was a libertarian socialist.

*More accurate than Emperor

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

Let's just say he was a maverick.

I think Tsar* Nero was a libertarian socialist.

*More accurate than Emperor

Tsar is a slavic word, the correct word would be Imperator or Caesar.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also, Richard III was clearly a socialist.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

Let's just say he was a maverick.

I think Tsar* Nero was a libertarian socialist.

*More accurate than Emperor

Tsar is a slavic word, the correct word would be Imperator or Caesar.

Tsar is a slavicisation of the Latin, to be precise.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Conversely Emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was definitely the first libertarian. Those romans with burning houses shouldn't have expected government handouts and pulled themselves up via bootstraps!

Actually, the people of Rome loved Nero because he sponsored huge public works projects funded by taxes on the senatorial class who rebelled and overthrew him.

Let's just say he was a maverick.

I think Tsar* Nero was a libertarian socialist.

*More accurate than Emperor

Tsar is a slavic word, the correct word would be Imperator or Caesar.

Tsar is a slavicisation of the Latin, to be precise.

Regardless, KP is going to far too great of lengths in his attempt to be a contrarian know-it-all.