POWER: The Scandal in Politics
The source of power in politics has been controversial since
Socrates's earliest theories of politics in the Platonic dialogues
Politics,
Laws, and
Statesman and also Xenophon's dialogue
Hiero or
Tyrannicus, a dialogue between Hiero, the tyrant of Syracuse in Eleatic Italy, and Simonides, a poet who also appears in Plato's dialogues.
In 1948 University of Chicago political science professor
Leo Strauss published
On Tyranny, a close reading of Xenophon, which led to famous exchanges between Strauss and the French philosopher
Alexander Kojéve, now incorporate in the
"Corrected and Expanded Edition" of On Tyranny.
References
Important links on Destroying Liberal Democracy...
Seven influences behind J.D.Vance.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984
Peter Thiel (The Straussian Moment)
https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf
Leo Strauss On Tyranny
https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Corrected-Including-Strauss-Kojève-Correspondence/dp/022603013X/
Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory
https://somacles.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/alexander-dugin-fourth-political-theory.pdf
Dugin’s Theory on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Political_Theory
Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory mentions two scholars:
Against Liberalism Alain de Benoist
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Liberalism-Alain-Benoist/dp/1642640425/
Dictatorship by Carl Schmitt
https://www.amazon.com/Dictatorship-Carl-Schmitt/dp/0745646484
Dugin. "Putin's Brain" or “Putin’s Rasputin”
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Putins-Brain-Political-Philosophy/dp/B0BB16SS1M/
Dugin-Putin-Erdogan
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alexander-dugin-russian-academic-linking-us-president-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-ukraine-a7560611.html
Alexander Dugin on CNN. Brief image of his book on Trump (in Russian)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/world/video/alexander-dugin-trump-putin-ldn-digvid
Dugin’s Book on Trump (strangely not available on Amazon?)
The Trump Revolution: A New Order of Great Powers
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-trump-revolution-alexander-dugin/
Dugin Demanded Ukraine War
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-imperialist-philosopher-who-demanded-the-ukraine-war
Michael Millerman on Political Philosophy
https://www.michaelmillerman.com. "The Dugin Course"
Curtis Yarvin and JD Vance (Michael Millerman on You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdsmq7A_lDU
Curtis Yarvin on the End of American Democracy (NY Times Podcast)
https://youtu.be/NcSil8NeQq8
JD Vance, Curtis Yarvin, and the End of Democracy
https://youtu.be/DrrsnFT-LNo
Curtis Yarvin on Tucker Carlson Today
https://youtu.be/K_8aT3pQo_I
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