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... includes his responses to questions from the audience. © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 NeIV Political Science, VOILl1ne 32, Number 1, March 2010 Movetnents Against Machiavellians: The Theory and Practice of Social Change Tom Hayden Abstract The follolving is a lightly edited...

... See Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory ofFreedom and Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), Pettit, A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought...

... theory of practice, and its hidden patron, Machiavelli, illuminate the price that must be paid to achieve progressive reform. This article first examines the New Deal's understanding of political pragmatism, which builds off of a Machiavellian concept of political practice. It follows with an examination...

... Press, 2021, 224 pp., S19.95 (softcover), ISBN: 0745341756 Why is it so difficult for American progressives to advance climate priorities? Even before Joe Manchin's Machiavellian decision to torpedo the Biden Administration's Build Back Better legislation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey's...

... to strategy for change. Rensenbrink presents ten possible strategies for change, and quickly (in three pages) dismisses the first seven: (1) a philosopher king; (2) a Machiavellian prince; (3) new ways of thinking spreading from the university into society; (4) working-class revolution; (5) an anarchist...

... means-both the most violent one and the seemingly most restrained-that will lead to the end17 The chief problem here lies in the instrumental notion of political power as an objectifiable quantity. Sharing the Machiavellian conceptual roots of their liberal "class enemies," most classical Marxists...

... finds motivations for Radical Enlightenment in the humanist traditions of self-government. McCormick too traces lOJohn P. McCormick, Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2011). @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 495 democratic republicanism to the humanism of Machiavelli...

... the shape of our history and re-addressed many familiar interpretive problems by excavating a long-lived neo-Machiavellian tradition concerned with the independent soldier-citizen of a free government endangered by modern corruption. 4 Skinner's incisive assault on traditional histories of political thought...

..., compromise, and manipulation. Stipelman sees in the New Dealers a powerful Machiavellian streak that is worth recovering: [P]olitics, in all its forms, is about the acquisition and use of power In a constitutional democracy this meant holding together the massive coalitions of disparate interests necessary...

... politics. The central reason for such an iconoclastic, Machiavellian recommendation, according to the analysis presented here, is that the political economy of poverty in least developed countries offers no other options. The United States wants to democratize poor countries, and it wants to 'do it using...

... of Political Theory 17:1 (2018), pp. 44-64; Breen, "Freedom, Republicanism, and Workplace Democracy"; Muldoon, "A Socialist Republican Theory of Freedom and Government"; O'Shea, "Socialist Republicanism." 42Miguel Abensour, Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement (London, UK: Polity...

... of the Machiavellian forces of fortuna and virtu: Fortuna denotes the present, political circumstances and the contingent historical conditions from which political thinking (and action) takes place, and virtu signifies the imaginative and creative employment of the past in order to make the moment opportune...

... Anthology , edited by Max Blechman , 125 – 61 . San Francisco : City Lights . Abensour , Miguel . 2008 . “ Persistent Utopia .” Constellations 15 , no. 3 : 406 – 21 . Abensour , Miguel . 2011 . Democracy against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment . Translated...

... of contro and social (for example, desire to maintain self-positive self-image6 People want to explain a chaotic universe, and believing a conspiracy theory helps Other psychological traits associated with increased belief are the dark triad of personality types: narcissism, Machiavellianism...

... as for sexism, we have become accustomed to discussing this issue. Again there are weak versions and there are strong versions (l mean in the logical sense). By weak versions, and I go quickly, I understand the idea that universalism was used in a Machiavellian way to cover and implement racist policies...

... politics; this was, Brandon suggests, a peculiar liberal 18James Burnham, The Machiavellians (New York: John Day (0, 1943); Isaiah Berlin, "Georges Sorel," in Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), 296-332. 19Judith Shklar...

... toward the indifference of gravity wells and black holes41 Not to argue that there is nothing that we can do about anything; rather, it is to, in a way, resurrect a Machiavellian understanding of virtu (strength, ability, praxis) 38Jairus Grove, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World...

..., or any of the other radical groups acting in direct opposition to neoliberalism and corporate colonialism is for it to behave like owners-the rightful heirs to capital. The Left must change with the historical tide, "otherwise, it isn't the Left" (p. 145). In a Machiavellian sense, Negri offers Goodbye...

... and ears of humanity must reject crude Machiavellianism in any guise. Kesselman's claim that I leave readers with just the image of the 'traditional classroom' and nothing more is wrong as stated for he assumes that this classroom is by definition authoritarian. My position about the traditional classroom...

... of Commerce contended that the Machiavellian Calles saw an opportunity to recoup political ground vis-a.-vis Ilis contenders by posing as a defender of Mexico and its working class. His political fortunes most surely motivated Calles, and little evidence exists that he ever distinguished Ilimself...