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How early could a radically egalitarian ideology similar to socialism arise in history? I remember a Byzantium TL with something about a city-state (Thessalonica?) like city nominally under Constantinople's control but merely paying taxes and not much else, whose upper-class was purge and its wealth redistributed.
Were there any such movements in OTL? What form could they take?