Statecraft

statecraft (n.) "the art of government," 1640s, from state (n.2) + craft (n.).
According to Melissa Lane in Plato's work "human expertise of statecraft is ultimately distinguished by its knowledge of the correct timing (kairos) as to when its closest rivals should be exercised: these are three forms of expertise that in fact corresponded to key political roles, some of them formal offices, in Greek cities at the time, namely, rhetoric, generalship, and judging."
The turn-of-the-century Italian School of political science—whose leading figures were Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto, and which James Burnham summarized in his best book, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (1940)—taught that all states are ruled by elites who subdue their subjects with illusions.— Moldbug, 27 Sep 2019
== Rhizomata ==
* The State; Statism; Origin of the State; Traditional State; Sorcerer State; Tradition; Ordenstaat; 
* Political terminology; Religious State; Political formula; State security; Information State
* Intelligence State; Security State; Internet State; Surveillance State
* Deep State; Orwellian State; Totalitarian State; Authoritarian State; Statelessness
* Statesman; State official; State monarch; Cult State; State cult
* Democratic State; Socialist State; Communist State; Liberal State; Revolutionary State
* Free State; National State; Historical State; Modern State; Medieval State
* See e.g. competitional statecraft or ‘competing statecraft’; ‘statecraft market’.
* A patchwork is a statecraft market.
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