gracchus

A couple of the reformers whose names I can remember are Tiberius Gracchus [1] and his brother Gaius Gracchus [2].

The extra-legal violence with Gracchus was quite new, and much more likely to spiral out of control.

Tiberius Gracchus tried to stop the ancient Roman 1% from stealing the wealth of the 99%.

Let us wait for our Gaius Marius, Gracchus brothers, and Sulla.

The only reason the checks and balances were added was because the Founders knew what the Gracchus brothers, Sulla, Marius and Cesar did to the Roman Republic.

Tiberius Gracchus was clubbed to death in broad daylight.

Even then, it was in response to political, economic and military issues which predated even Tiberius Gracchus whose tribunate many use to mark the beginning of the end.

I'd argue Rome died not in 476 but in -121 when the Senate killed Gaius Gracchus and didn't realize they needed reform and create an actual political process that doesn't lead to smooth talkers and thus tyranny.

Communism didn't even exist at the time, although arguably the first proto-communist advocate, Gracchus Babeuf, did emerge later in the French Revolution (he was offed by the "left wing" itself, though).

How basic income will affect democracy - I can imagine a party which main program point will be "increase basic income" (Gaius Gracchus was outbid by his competitors) - a croud might vote for a random wacko without thinking about further consequences.

Why stop there Girolamo Savonarola was doing it in the 15th century, or Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.

Basic income idea always resambles me a lot Lex Frumentaria introduced in ancient Rome by Gaius Gracchus.

I'll be that guy: Gracchi is already plural (-ī is the plural masculine nominative for the singular Gracchus).