Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 June 21, 1527) lived in Florence, Italy. Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher, politician, writer and perhaps i among the chief founders of semipolitical science. Since Machiavelli was a renaissance man, he acted in the mental object of a diplomat, a political philosopher, a musician, a playwright, a poet and a Florentine Republic civil servant. This paper therefore takes to ascertain the finis to which Machiavelli would consider the political ideologies of doubting Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Adolph Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt as feasible or meaningful.Thomas Paine Machiavelli would run across the ideas of Paines political postulations in Common Sense lovely 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 spirit of man. To this effect, the government would act as the restrainer of human vices. The agree fittedness with Machiavellis i batchs is that this ideology marries well with Machiavellis postulations about the leader being able to move fast to quash political foes so as to unite power (Machiavelli, 1868).It is obvious that the means of extirpating the influence of a political enemy would be states 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 by means of Karl Marxs teachings on the Class Consciousness and Antagonism, Marx explains on how the political elite, the bourgeoisie, exploits by using the state instruments and state forces, the working class (the proletariat) with the two prevailing aims of consolidating political power and ensuring profit maximization from the proletariats (Marx and Engels, 1955).This well agrees with Machiavellis political ideology of The ends justifying the means- a maxim Karl Marx crafts to buttress his argument that a ruler must use all means possible to relieve and consolidate power, the killing of foes and friends alike, being inclusive of these means. Adolph Hitler Similarly, some ideas propounded by Hitler in his writings, Mein Kampf would be acceptable before Karl Marx. Hitler (1986) is reported as having posited that since the masses are always trivial and less smart, a leader should be superstar who is calculating, not having qualms to employ propaganda on the masses to achieve a political feat.This still underscores Machiavellis idea of the ends justifying the means. Similarly, Machiavelli espouses deeply the use of trickery (propaganda) to corroborate power. Hitlers plans to create more room (Lebensraum) for Germans by entering treaties with UK and Russia as an artifice to help in the recapturing of the Germanys lost tracts of land confirms Machiavellis ideas that a leader must be calculating and very cunning.The cunningness stinkpot this proposed Russia, Germany and UK treaty is that the provision would w ard off Germany from the exhaustion of fighting at the same time both in the East and West (Manheim and Hitler, 1969). Franklin D. Roosevelt To a larger extent, Roosevelts postulations that are revealed in his inaugural speech that saw his transition from a New York governor to the 32nd US president would be considered as antithetical towards Machiavellis. The concept of political morality and stark allusions to values imbue all the spectra of Roosevelts speech.Roosevelt is spurred on by morality while Machiavelli on the other hand, political expedience. The only point Machiavelli would accept Roosevelts propositions is the feature that Roosevelt saw the need of broad executive powers being vested on the result of the executive in order to allow the occupant of this office deal with an invading foreign foe (Polenberg, 2000). Machiavelli talks of all the instruments at the giving medication of the ruler being used to quash ruthlessly an enemy. ConclusionNevertheless, it is preg nant to consider that although comparing ones political doctrine to another(prenominal) for scholarly proposes may remain as expedient, yet, any political philosophy has the merit to exist in its own right, provided the philosophy in picture captures the true identity of the state. It is by this virtue that al these philosophies which were advanced by Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Adolph Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt were considered as legitimate in the eyes of respective citizens.