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From the origins of democracy to Machiavelli's cunning statecraft, and from Rousseau's "social contract" to the American Declaration of Independence, Marxist communism, the dawn of populism, and identity politics, The Little Book of Politics examines the philosophies behind the different political beliefs and methods of government used around the world over the course of human history.
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Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Ancient and Medieval Political Thought 800BCE-1515CE
If your desire is for good, the people will be good Confucius 12
The art of war is of vital importance to the state Sun Tzu 18
Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils Plato 22
Man is by nature a political animal Aristotle 26
A single wheel does not move Chanakya 30
If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers?: Augustine of Hippo 34
Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you Muhammad 36
No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land: Barons of King John 38 38
For war to be just, there is required a just cause Thomas Aquinas 40
Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself Ibn Khaldun 46
A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word Niccolò Machiavelli 48
The Early Modern Period 1515-1848
The condition of man is a condition of war Thomas Hobbes 56
The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom John Locke 62
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man Jean-Jacques Rousseau 66
No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness Immanuel Kant 72
The passions of individuals should be subjected Edmund Burke 76
Rights dependent on property are the most precarious Thomas Paine 80
All men are created equal Thomas Jefferson 84
Government has but a choice of evils Jeremy Bentham 86
The people have a right to keep and bear arms James Madison 90
The most respectable women are the most oppressed Mary Wollstonecraft 94
The slave feels self-existence to be something external Georg Hegel 96
War is the continuation of Politik by other means Carl von Clausewitz 100
The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos Augusts Comte 101
A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay Simón Bolívar 102
The Rise of the Masses 1848-1910
Socialism is a new system of serfdom Alexis de Tocqueville 106
That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time John Stuart Mill 108
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent Abraham Lincoln 114
Property is theft Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 115
The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart Mikhail Bakunin 116
Communism is the riddle of history solved Karl Marx 118
The will to power Friedrich Nietzsche 122
It is necessary to dare in order to succeed Peter Kropotkin 126
Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote Emmeline Pankhurst 127
The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism Max Weber 128
The Clash of Ideologies 1919-1945
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith Mahatma Gandhi 132
Politics begin where the masses are Vladimir Lenin 136
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last Winston Churchill 142
The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence Joseph Stalin 144
If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? Leon Trotsky 146
Europe has been left without a moral code José Ortega y Gasset 150
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception Carl Schmitt 152
Communism is as bad as imperialism Jomo Kenyatta 156
The state must be conceived of as an "educator" Antonio Gramsci 157
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun Mao Zedong 158
Postwar Politics 1945-Present
The chief evil is unlimited government Friedrich Hayek 164
Every known and established fact can be denied Hannah Arendt 168
What is a woman? Simone de Beauvoir 170
No natural object is solely a resource Arne Naess 174
We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy Nelson Mandela 178
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions John Rawls 180
Colonialism is violence in its natural state Frantz Fanon 184
We need to "cut off the king's head" Michel Foucault 188
Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves Che Guevara 190
Everybody has to make sure that the rich folk are happy Noam Chomsky 192
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance Martin Luther King Jr. 194
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified Robert Nozick 198
Index 200
Acknowledgments 207