Tag: Democracy
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Étienne de La Boétie on Liberty and Tyranny
Étienne de La Boétie on facing corrupt rulers. “Be resolute to serve no more, and you are at once free. I do not ask you to push him, to topple him over, but only to cease sustaining, and you will see him, as a great colossus whose pedestal we’ve shattered, fall of his own weight…
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Post-Risorgimento Idealism: Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonari Theosophists
NOTES ON GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in a way most people have not considered. Let us for the time being forget what H.P. Blavatsky states about Central Asian origins of Theosophy, the origins of Zoroastrianism, the preserved…
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The Tempests: Someday | America
Let the music speak . . . “Someday, maybe baby somewhere / somehow, O sometime, I’m going to find you / and make you mine, mine O mine / Someday. Someday.” . . . And then the beautiful black youth of today stood up, but so did the many. And they saw hope and light…
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This is My Stance on Death of George Floyd and Police Brutality, NFL, Conservatives on the Protests
The American Right and far-right across social media appear to all be in perfect agreement with one another about the protests and this entire crisis. Firstly, it is a lie of Conservatives, that George Floyd is seen as a martyr by the Black community. So far as for his family, pictures of him and family…
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Minerva leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington”
MINERVA, Goddess of Wisdom leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.” The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington is a copperplate-printed toile fabric produced in several colorways in Britain between 1785-1800, after the first defeat of the British Empire. A banner reads “Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country.” GALLERY…
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The Loose Tradition of Republican Writers
In regards to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is a great reference for understanding ‘REPUBLICANISM,’ in two different, but closely related senses. The author of the article, Frank Lovett explains that in the first sense is meant, a loose tradition or family of writers in the history of western political thought: “Machiavelli and his…
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Benjamin Rush and Early Federalist Republicanism: Fear of Democracy, Moral Degradation, and Corruption
Fear of Mob Democracy and the Roman republic’s fate of corruption The stories of Marius, Tacitus, Livy and Sallust stress importance of morals, reason and the rule of law in a virtuous republic; also corruption of these through avarice, luxury, parties, factions and venality. According to the Roman statesman, Sallust, a republic should be free…
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Mario Palmieri on the True Goal of Fascism in relation to the Spiritual: Four Cardinal Points and National Heroism
THE FOUR CARDINAL POINTS OF FASCISM “Never before, to be sure, had a social and political system advanced such claims upon the inner world of man as this claim of Fascism to determine for him the form of conduct…” MARIO PALMIERI, THE PHILOSOPHY OF FASCISM Darkness is upon the land, and there is no hero…
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Democracy’s Faith in the Potential of Man | Jewish American Horace M. Kallen
HORACE KALLEN’S CREATIVE DEMOCRACY SOURCE. HORACE M. KALLEN’S CREATIVE DEMOCRACY, SECTION 1: WHAT IS DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNISM, FASCISM, AND DEMOCRACY (CARL COHEN) This article is meant to contrast with Mario Palmieri on the Rebirth of Classical Studies and Lore: Critiques the Renaissance, Individualism, and Speaks of the Ancient Sages. A Jewish American, Horace M. Kallen…
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Mario Palmieri on the Rebirth of Classical Studies, the Renaissance and Ancient Sages
The idea of Democracy is that the citizens are capable of ruling themselves, as John Locke held concerning our liberty; and could if given equality and advances in education, become enlightened citizens. The Fascists taught, that this is a delusional trait of the Democratic ideal. ⚔ Two Sections I. THE RATIONALE OF THE FASCIST CRITIQUE…
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John Adams Letter to John Taylor: “Remember, democracy never lasts long”
“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.” JOHN ADAMS (FIRST VPOTUS AND SECOND POTUS) LETTER TO JOHN TAYLOR, 17 DECEMBER 1814. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Benjamin Franklin was asked supposedly, as he left…
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Giovanni Gentile on the True ‘Will of the People’ and Difference between Fascism and Nationalism
“The nationalistic State was, therefore, an aristocratic State, enforcing itself upon the masses through the power conferred upon it by its origins. The Fascist State, on the contrary, is a people’s state, and, as such, the democratic State par excellence.” — GIOVANNI GENTILE Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy…
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