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The Populist Delusion (Neema Parvini)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Parvini's the Eight Men

Parvini ably summarizes and coheres the cores thought of eight men. Gaetano mosca was first modern political theorist to point out that every society always is ruled by an elite, usually one composed of two layers. Vilfredo paredo offered a complex and highly original social analysis showing that ruling class overthrow was not result of competing ideologies. Bertrand de juvenal noted that democracy in practice was the broadest highway to tyranny that has ever existed. Samuel t francis up dated burnham's thought to incorporate the explicit left beliefs that had come to characterize the modern managerial elite. And who called for a revolution from the middle.

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