Toward a Post-Machiavellian Politics

The political science professor in Fail Safe who irresponsibly advised his government in predicting the death of 60 million to 100 million people, arrogantly answered inquiries about the moral foundation of his politics by saying, “I am not a poet, I am a political scientist.” Something, however, has changed after World War II and this has turned the set of political principles characterized as “Machiavellian realism” into dangerous and irresponsible dreams that work in the short run but lead the world to the brink of disaster in the longer term. What can be called Machiavellianism shared the theoretical fate of Marxism

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