It is maybe the only political ideology rabbithole left after Ancap.
Elite Theory is basically, “The purpose of a system is what it does” - but for politics.
It takes Ancap type theory of the State and applies what The State actually is and does to the theory to see how power works in reality instead of just theory.
Machiavelli + adherents. Have you looked into that?
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2025-08-08 17:44:39 UTC
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