Aug 30, 2009

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part IV: Pareto and Fascism

Pareto and FascismBefore we enter into the controversy surrounding Pareto’s sympathy for Italian leader Benito Mussolini, let us take pains to avoid the error of viewing events of the 1920s through the spectacles of the post-World War II era, for what seemed apparent in 1945 was not at all evident twenty years before. Inarguably, throughout the whole of the 1920s, Mussolini...

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Aug 29, 2009

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part III: The Theory of Elites

Circulation of the ElitesApart from his analyses of residues and derivations, Pareto is notable among sociologists for the theory known as “the circulation of the elites.” Let us remember that Pareto considered society a system in equilibrium, where processes of change tend to set in motion forces that work to restore and maintain social balance.Pareto asserts that...

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Aug 28, 2009

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part II: Foxes and Lions

Residues and DerivationsOne of Pareto’s most noteworthy and controversial theories is that human beings are not, for the most part, motivated by logic and reason but rather by sentiment. Les Systèmes socialistes is interspersed with this theme and it appears in its fully developed form in Pareto’s vast Treatise on General Sociology. In his Treatise, Pareto examines the...

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Aug 26, 2009

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part I: The Critique of Socialism

Pareto is additionally important for us today because he is a towering figure in one of Europe’s most distinguished, and yet widely suppressed, intellectual currents.That broad school of thought includes such diverse figures as Burke, Taine, Dostoyevsky, Burckhardt, Donoso Cortés, Nietzsche, and Spengler and stands in staunch opposition to rationalism, liberalism,...

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