Ideas can serve republicanism regardless of their author’s self-identification

Evidence

However, that is not to say that his ideas could not be employed in a republican manner. After all, the value that republicans want to maximize is freedom as nondomination. This normative purpose motivates their endeavors to explain how and why a contestatory citizenry can react against the transgressions of the state institutions. If one can find in Tocqueville part of the toolkit required in order to securing the ideal of non-domination, there is no theoretical inconsistency caused by the fact that Tocqueville himself would not have identified as a republican. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Analogous to how later movements claim antecedents (e.g. reading Aristotle on sociability as proto-communitarian), and to debates over whether authors would endorse downstream uses of their thought. — connects to: Republican non-domination language can articulate left and right causes alike — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1251; The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210; A scholar’s ideological agenda does not invalidate the findings of their research — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 536 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 27

Related

• Republicanism’s elite origins can be repurposed as a universal ideal (similarity 0.83)
• Republican non-domination language can articulate left and right causes alike (similarity 0.79)
• Tocqueville advocated enlightened self-interest, not republican civic virtue (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Republican non-domination language can articulate left and right causes alike #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1251
• A scholar’s ideological agenda does not invalidate the findings of their research #exemplifies (0.82) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 536
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210