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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 1 Podcast 4 Machiavellian Pragmatism
Description: Machiavellian Pragmatism Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men..." In 1513 Nicolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince, otherwise known as The Little Book, a diabolical manual for gaining power and holding power mercilessly. Perhaps Machiavelli was the inspiration for Lord Acton’s comment because in The Prince Machiavelli advocates meanness as a means of rising to power and holding power.I take my information from The Prince, translated by W.K. Marriott. Machiavelli was an astute student of history, of scriptu...