Communism

That's awesome, where would they go ? it sounds like a strike. Would bakers abandon their bakeries as well ? how would the citizens fare while on secession, did they have a strike fund set up or something ? I'm going to look it up.

here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis

The successive secessions seem to have worked, I suppose the plebeians had enough leverage. I'm interested in the pragmatics of this, but It's not obvious to me how they subsisted during secession. I also can't help thinking if this were to happen in some of our modern societies, pigs armed to the teeth would be immediately sent to assault the plebeians.

There are parallel articles going into detail about the social advances brought in by the secessions. Some reading