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The clashes between Rome’s conservative and liberal factions, following the Punic Wars, would start an internal, political struggle which is still fought to this day. As the result of an increasing use of slave labor, the plight of the lower classes. whose jobs had been displaced by slaves, launched Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus into a political war to save Rome’s urban poor. The Brothers Gracchi would redefine the office of Tribune of the Plebs, and create the first seeds of liberal socialism, which would inspire politicians for the rest of history.