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Gaetano Mosca’s Followers (34)
Gaetano Mosca
Born
in Palermo, Italy
April 01, 1858
Died
November 08, 1941
Influences
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Ruling Class
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1969
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12 editions
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The Ruling Class
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published
1896
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43 editions
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¿Qué Es La Mafia?
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published
2012
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23 editions
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A short History of Political Philosophy
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published
1937
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9 editions
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Historia doktryn politycznych
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The Ruling Class:
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What Is the Mafia?
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Teorica dei governi e governo parlamentare
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published
1982
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il principe di machiavelli quattro secoli dopo la morte del suo autore
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Elementi di scienza politica. 1896 [Leather Bound]
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“If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.”
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“In reality the dominion of an organized minority, obeying a single impulse, over the unorganized majority is inevitable. The power of any minority is irresistable as against each single individual in the majority, who stands alone before the totality of the organized minority. A hundred men acting uniformly in concert, with a common understanding, will triumph over a thousand men who are not in accord and can therefore be dealt with one by one. Meanwhile it will be easier for the former to act in concert and have a mutal understanding simply because they are a hundred and not a thousand. It follows that the larger the political community, the smaller the will the proportion of the governing minority to the governing majority will be, the more difficult will it be for the majority to organize for reaction against the minority.”
― The Ruling Class
― The Ruling Class
“What happens in order forms of government – namely, that an organized minority imposes its will on the disorganized majority – happens also and to perfection, whatever the appearances to the contrary, under the representative system. When we say that the voters “choose” their representative, we are using a language that is every inexact. The truth is that the representative has himself elected by the voters, and, if that phrase should seem too inflexible and too harsh to fit some cases, we might qualify it by saying that this friends have him elected. In elections, as in all other manifestations of social life, those who have the will and, especially, the moral, intellectual and material means to force their will upon others take the lead over the others and command them.”
― The Ruling Class
― The Ruling Class
