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

[Joseph Tracy]

Just starting to catch up, my mac has bad capacitors so have been mostly 
out of touch - good info Mark
On 9/27/2010 7:42 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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
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> 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.................
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> So, TRPs early V-based perspective on Mazzini?
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> And, this chapter seems to present various attitudes to history, within history,
> with major historical examples, yes?
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