It is chosen because of its singular fitness to modern times in one important respect, the unity of action of the oppressors, despite hostile politico material interests and clashing religious views the hypocrisy that typifies them all; the oneness of fundamental purpose that animates pulpit, professorial chair or public office in possession of a plundering class and, last not least, the identity of the methods pursued and the pretences seized by the plundering and ruling class at that long ago critical period in the history of the human race, when the pre feudal colossus of the Roman Empire was by force of its own power, beginning to strangle itself and at the present or third critical period.