My latest review for #bookstr is The Populist Delusion by Neema Parvini (also known as Academic Agent on Xitter).
I’ve been interested in Elite Theory for a while and began reading Burnham, then Mosca, and Michels, after reading The Prince by Machiavelli before the interest formed.
Should have started with this book before going deep!
It’s a condensed primer which takes those major works plus Pareto, Carl Schmitt, and Sam Francis, and condenses the core concepts and contributions into a single, easy to grasp volume, of just 144 pages.
If you want to understand how power actually works; this is a great place to start.
Parvini is able to, somewhat like Francis, use the benefit of decades of hindsight in explaining the managerial takeover of power by drawing on these works and showing how it is wielded in the modern context.
It helps explain globohomo, DEI, corporatism, touches Zionism, and how the current elites are trying to maintain control and where the chinks in the armour are.
More Bitcoiners should study Elite Theory and get beyond ancap ideology because a time is coming when they will be the new counter-elite whether they want it or not; understanding real world power dynamics could be crucial to survival.
