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Re:Why history is always political by paxys on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:34PM (#42525299)
The definition of both history and politics is vague and broad enough that there's guaranteed to be a complete overlap between the two. Anything that ever happened is history. The reason why things happened a certain way (at least in the form it was written down) is politics.
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Re:Why history is always political by gsf_emergency on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:24AM (#42529716)
>Pocock’s claim is that history writing is, to some extent, political in itself.

Future historiographers might note a similar relationship between the papers of computer scientists and the economy..

In particular:

>history is the most powerful element in the construction and destruction of self-knowledge of political societies

I wish the reviewer had attended to the novel thing that Pocock had pointed out about the age-old tension between collectivism and humanism, though:

  The time scale factor. (Think tech debt)
The key phrase 'Machiavellian Moment' is only mentioned in passing as

>the difficulty he faced in reconciling an ideal of citizenship with the uncertain and temporal character of republics.

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