Book Schmooze
Book Schmooze is a book review podcast where we ramble about books that we just read, mostly non-fiction. Contact Email: bookschmooze@gmail.com “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Book Schmooze
The Machiavellians by James Burnham
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Anna & Alexej
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Welcome to season 2 of Book Schmooze with all new books and a brand new microphone!!
Notes: Robert Michels was actually German!
Intro
Structure of the book
Dante Aligheri
A little bit about Machiavelli
GAETANO MOSCA
Bonapartism
Freedom
Role of celibacy
Freedom vs beaurocracy
GEORGE SOREL
"Political formula"
Function of violence?
ROBERT MICHELS
Device of resignation
Iron law of oligarchy
Managerial revolution
VILFREDO PARETO
"Residues and Derivations"
Social utility
Circulation of elites
5 conditions for revolution
Future of "self-government"
Relation to other books on the podcast
THE QUESTION