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Originally Posted by Skybird
When will the people of Europe rise and tear down the EU's social-fascist dictatorship like the people of Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have brought down their tyrant regimes 23 years ago? Why have people forgotten the lessons learned from the GDR and the USSR? The EU runs by the same mechanisms of never legitimized but usurped power like these two regimes did. How comes that this has already been forgotten again - less than just one generation later?
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Maybe it is because people function by the same rules and leaders crave for power by the same rules as ever. There I have read so much by and about my beloved Machiavelli, and when his exquisit descriptions recommend themselves again to explain the present - I just forget to think about them. Stupid me!
Jubilee!. 500 years ago, Machiavelli pretty much founded what could be labeled as the beginning of political science. Different to philosophers and dreamers before him, he did not care to dream about what policy and state should be like, but he cool-mindedly described how the mechanisms of securing and gaining power function. That'S what made him different to everybody before him, and that is what makes him a master in his field until today.