"The numbers of women killed at abortion clinics, because of incompetence, neglect, and lack of proper emergency facilities is significant, too, although the press does its best to conceal the numbers."
Good point.
BTW, I'm reading a fictional story set in Rome during Pompey's flight and Caesar's assumption of power (Pompey = Cut & run!) where 'you' (Cicero) are playing a large part! So...are you for Pompey or Caesar?! (In the story, you're having a hard time choosing sides...)
I suppose as a conservative, I should favor the Optimates, led by Pompey, over the Populares, led by Caesar. Cicero did. But as you imply, the choice isn't easy.
Marx didn't invent class warfare, the Romans did. You see it in the earliest days of Rome, as described by Livy, and throughout most of Rome's history. All Marx did was to invent a "scientific" theory of class warfare that was sheer nonsense.
On the other hand, it has been argued that that was Rome's strength, until finally the balance of power broke down in the civil wars you are reading about. Namely, Rome had what the Greeks called "mixed government," neither popular nor aristocratic nor kingly, but a combination of all three, embodied in the consuls, senate, and tribunes.