The Machiavellians Book Summary & Analysis: Wishful Thinking v. Political Truth. Bird & Knight

by | Aug 31, 2021

… Since war and foreign policy provide the State with its easiest means of delusion and deception. Revisionist exposure on the foreign affairs front is the most important avenue of desanctification and delegitimation of the State apparatus and of State aggression.

Murray N. Rothbard
Libertarian Forum v. 2, pp. 639–40

Bird Archist’s LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/birdarchist

Bird Archist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TLEbirdarchist

PDF of The Machiavellians: https://odysee.com/@libertariantruther:0/James-Burnham—The-Machiavellians_-Defenders-of-Freedom—(1943,-The-John-Day-Company,-Inc.)—libgen.lc:0

LBRY / Odysee: https://odysee.com/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Burnham-Bird:f

BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/2sWdfILnQ9EQ/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bUOFGbF9tIpdYR4g2tCdv

Flote: https://flote.app/post/7e1b6ea2-0e8e-4d81-9617-afe912f7ca1c

Archive: https://archive.org/details/Burnham-Bird

Minds: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1279125787319996434?referrer=KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone

Keith Knight

Keith Knight

Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

View all posts

Our Books

Shop books published by the Libertarian Institute.

libetarian institute longsleeve shirt

Support via Amazon Smile

Our Books

15 books

Recent Articles

Recent

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pearl Harbor

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pearl Harbor

https://youtu.be/TkJc66nL19c At the time, Henry Lewis Stimson was the U.S. Secretary of War, and in the 1946 “Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack” Stimson’s diary is brought into evidence. On page 177, the report cites a diary entry from November 25, 1941, almost...

read more
WTF Happened in 1971?

WTF Happened in 1971?

https://youtu.be/vdFBoGZycRI The second week of August the British Ambassador appeared at the treasury Department to ask that three billion dollars be converted into gold. Whether we honored or denied this request the consequences of our action would be fraught with...

read more
The Pro-War Roots of Progressivism

The Pro-War Roots of Progressivism

https://youtu.be/KB4JaO7v-FI What makes government a unique institution in society is its widely recognized right to achieve its ends via threats of violence against nonaggressors. This is why you would go to jail for trying to “tax” someone’s income, or if you...

read more

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This