¿Cuál sería el aire de familia en términos políticos entre César Borgia, Napoleón III y Donald Trump?
[EN] In his Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Maurice Joly cast Napoleon III in a role similar to that played by Cesare Borgia in The Prince, and one wonders if he wouldn’t do the same now with a figure as picturesque as Donald Trump. As Marx pointed out, inspired by Engels, trag...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repository: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/411342 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/411342 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Maquiavelo Montesquieu Joly César Borgia Napoleón III Donald Trump Political history |
| Summary: | [EN] In his Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Maurice Joly cast Napoleon III in a role similar to that played by Cesare Borgia in The Prince, and one wonders if he wouldn’t do the same now with a figure as picturesque as Donald Trump. As Marx pointed out, inspired by Engels, tragedies tend to be repeated as farces, and the characters who perform them increasingly cultivate a shamelessly burlesque genre. It is also worth remembering that a crude plagiarism of Joly’s text gave rise to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and that conspiracy theories unfortunately recruit many followers today, fostering a counter-Enlightenment despotism with neo-fascist traits. |
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