V-2nd, Chap 7, p 159 Gentle-eyed Mazzini with his lambent dreams

[Mark Kohut]

Giuseppe Mazzini (June 22, 1805 – March 10, 1872), the "Soul of Italy,"[1] was 
an Italian patriot, philosopher and politician. His efforts helped bring about 
the modern Italian state[2] in place of the several separate states, many 
dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped 

define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican 
state.---wikipedia
Karl Marx, on an interview by R. Landor in 1871, said that Mazzini's ideas 
represents "nothing better than the old idea of a middle-class republic." Marx 
believed, especially after the Revolutions of 1848, that this alleged middle 
class point of view had become reactionary and the proletariat had nothing to do 
with it.[7]
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Mazzini was an early advocate of a "United States of Europe" about a century 
before the European Union began to take shape. For him, European unification was 
a logical continuation of Italian unification.
I think of the TRP who, in Against the Day, seemed to have a solid belief in the 
boundaries of older, natural territories as against the later legally-defined
Nation-States.................

So, TRPs early V-based perspective on Mazzini? 

And, this chapter seems to present various attitudes to history, within history, 
with major historical examples, yes?