Ten Theses on Machiavelli

Machiavelli can be read as a plebeian thinker supportive of plebeian institutions that, as such, differentiate the few from the many and aim to regulate and burden the few. Yet, like numerous contemporary plebeian thinkers, Machiavelli is mostly silent about the moral transgressiveness required by the advocacy of plebeian institutions and ideas. The theses offered here argue that advocates of plebeianism will need, like the Machiavellian prince, to learn how not to be good. In explaining what this means in practice, the theses also defend the propriety of anachronistic readings, caution again plebeian violence, and explain other dynamics of plebeian leftism

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• The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

  Open Access•Quentin Skinner•The Foundations of Modern…•1978

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• Participation and political equality

  Sidney Verba•Participation and political…•1987

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• The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic

  Fergus Millar•The crowd in Rome in the late…•1998

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• Machiavellian democracy

  Casey E Cagley•Journal of Political Power•2012

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• The Question of Machiavelli's Modernity

  Open Access•Anthony J Parel•The Review of Politics•1991

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• Leo Strauss

  Open Access•Allan Bloom, Bloom Allan•Political Theory•1974

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• Liberalism and the Problem of Plutocracy

  Open Access•Jeffrey Edward Green•Constellations•2016

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• The Humanist Concept of the Prince and the Prince of Machiavelli

  Félix Gilbert•The Journal of Modern History•1939

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