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*VDARE Book Club—THE MACHIAVELLIANS: DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM By James Burnham* ( [link removed] )

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If I could tell political activists to read one book, it would be this one. James Burnham’s The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom ( [link removed] ) is a jewel because it presents perhaps the only prominent modernist analytical framework that has been created for the Right. By modernist, I mean something that doesn’t rely on appeals to the divine, abstractions like “freedom,” or naïve faith that “the Truth” will simply prevail by being exposed.

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If there was one small essay I could get political activists to read, it would be Sam Francis’s The Other Side of Modernism: James Burnham and His Legacy ( [link removed] ). Francis’s essay explains that conservatives have largely failed to make use of Burnham’s analytical framework, thus leaving the movement forever flat-footed when seemingly radical leftist demands triumph with ease. Instead of building coalitions and looking for ways to build concrete centers of power that can check leftist hegemony, conservatives take refuge in castles in the sky, bemoaning inevitable decline and consoling themselves with the thought that there will never be the likes of us again.

Burnham’s framework is not sufficient, of course. It can come off as cold. In his work, Burnham, drawing on Georges Sorel, is quite aware of the need for a Political Myth to inspire concrete action. Yet even talking about it in such terms deconstructs it.

It’s hard for a political activist to deconstruct his own beliefs; it would be akin to a biblical scholar deconstructing Scripture and expecting to come out on the other side with his dogma unshaken. The mystery of politics is that practical, realistic action also requires an absolute, impossible Ideal —a worldview, a creed, a faith that burns like fire in the blood—for people to act.

Burnham arguably falls short in recognizing that. The great Catholic convert Whittaker Chambers expressed this in a particularly striking way: *“The Fire Bird is glimpsed living or not at all. In other words, realists have a way of missing truth which is not invariably realistic.”*

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