Many parallels between late Rome and America.Rome was an enormous egalitarian capitalist empire. Starting from an organic tribe, it expanded to conquer huge swaths of territory and assimilate countless foreign tribes under its system of laws.Then it gradually lost the distinction between the core and the periphery, by expanding the definition of citizenship (eg Constitutio Antoniniana in 212) and thus diluting it. Mass immigration to the imperial capital meant the Romans become confused about what Rome even ...