The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

by James Burnham

that only by renouncing all ideology can we begin to see the world and man. James

states are not ruled with prayer-books.”

in all places at all times the best luck, or the worst, is often to be born the child of one’s father and one’s mother.”

It might, however, be argued that, when interpreting social change, we accept the physical and biological factors as historically irrelevant “constants”; and that, within the conditions which they admittedly set, logical conduct functions to decide what happens in history.