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- Oct 2021
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graymirror.substack.com graymirror.substack.com
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As Shaw so wittily shows us, Ruskin’s political perspective boils down to the basically Bolshevik belief that the people are the property of the regime. There is no such thing as a citizen—only a subject. The idea that the people can rule the government is just a fraud—like QAnon—but older. The government has no choice but to rule the people. This is the purely absolutist Renaissance or Machiavellian theory of sovereignty.
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- Feb 2021
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Strauss (1978) - Thoughts on Machiavelli
- https://is.gd/P8gx1i
- urn:x-pdf:ef06fb865deb42619d7364cd10e4229c
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