Word: machiavellis
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...book of history, Britain and the U.S. did not cotton to this last suggestion-that Stalin was just in there doing his bit for all hands, like a latter-day saint. Whatever they think of their own foreign policy, most Britons and Americans have great respect for the modern Machiavelli...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
Burnham discusses at length the leading modern followers of Machiavelli...
...Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) thought the Rabbits were a good deal more aggressive than Machiavelli did. Mosca found "the struggle for pre-eminence is far more conspicuous . . . than the struggle for existence...
...autocratic tendencies. Like Burnham, Hook recognizes the persistent power of the elite. But he thinks that democratic forces may overcome a ruling class. In Burnham's view, man is a long shot and history is doom. In Hook's view, man has the odds. For Burnham, Machiavelli is an aid to pessimism. For Hook, the concept of the hero bolsters optimism...