Tag: Machiavelli
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Divisions in the Postwar Fascist International
Reading Time: 19 minutesOswald Spengler was inside the Munich Beer Hall on November 8, 1923, when Hitler launched his putsch. Such encounters convinced him that the Nazis were the worst sort of proletarized street rabble. But although he cultivated an aura of political detachment, he was highly political. He wrote Prussianism and Socialism in 1919,…
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Machiavelli Was The West’s First Democratic Theorist
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNiccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is often interpreted as a cynic, or as a philosopher of political evil. But according to a Jacobin article, “Machiavelli was a republican idealist whose support for popular rule can inspire struggles against the oligarchies of today.”