Machiavelli Acceptance

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Introduction

Niccolo Machiavelli (May 3 , 1469 - June 21 , 1527 ) lived in Florence Italy . Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher , politician , writer and perhaps one among the chief founders of political science . Since Machiavelli was a renaissance man , he acted in the capacity of a diplomat , a political philosopher , a musician , a playwright , a poet and a Florentine Republic civil servant . This therefore takes to ascertain the extent to which Machiavelli would consider the political ideologies of Thomas Paine , Karl Marx , Adolph Hitler and

Franklin D Roosevelt as feasible or meaningful

Thomas Paine

Machiavelli would find the ideas of Paine 's political postulations in Common Sense agreeable to a larger extent . This is more so because Paine (2006 ) perceives the government as a punisher , and this role being a derivative of the inherent wicked nature of man . To this effect , the government would act as the restrainer of human vices . The agreeableness with Machiavelli 's ideals is that this ideology marries well with Machiavelli 's postulations about the leader being able to move fast to quash political foes so as to consolidate power (Machiavelli , 1868 . It is obvious that the means of extirpating the influence of a political enemy would be state 's instruments of coercion (Paine , 2000

Karl Marx

In the same vein , Machiavelli would find the Marxist ideologies propounded by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto agreeable since through Karl Marx 's teachings on the Class Consciousness and Antagonism Marx explains on how the...