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>http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/1000-years-ago-chinese-through-abbasid-eyes-1745528673
>The government cares for the wellbeing of its citizens. If a sick person is poor, “he is given the cost of his medicine from the public treasury”.
>The citizens pay a fair poll tax when they reach the age of 18. Old people do not have to pay taxes but receive a pension. Every city has a school and a teacher and the children of the poor are fed from the public treasury. “The Chinese, whether poor or rich, young or old, all learn to form letters and to write.” It sounds like socialism avant la lettre.
Did the Chinese invent socialism before socialism was invented by Russian in the 20th century?
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>>2231055
You know Rome did most everything you just mentioned to some capacity or another, right? The one exception being the literacy.
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>>2231066
Only thing I can recall about Roman empire was grain distribution for the poor.
I don't recall a universal pension system, nor a state funded hospital system, nor a universal schooling system.
So only relevant part is "poor are fed from the public treasury".
I however do recall the churches setting up some sort of a hospital system, however those churches relied on prayers and god's good will for healing the sick.
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>>2231055
Russia did not invent socialism or even communism
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>>2231090
I said to some capacity or another.
All citizens paid a poll tax.
Roman soldiers and the poor were the only ones who went to hospitals.
Roman soldiers were also given a pension.
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>>2231093
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_ancient_Rome#Hospitals
They say there is almost no medical support for the poor. The roman hospital was for the soldiers and the SLAVES.
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>>2231055
This board is going to shit
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