Machiavelli sought willing follower loyalty to a leader despite ideological clash

Evidence

It seems clear that Machiavelli wished to persuade these forces of the necessity of having a leader who knew what he wanted and how to obtain it, and of accepting him with enthusiasm even if his actions might conflict or appear to conflict with the generalised ideology of the time—religion. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 622

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘modern Prince’ idea: a leader to be embraced even against prevailing ideology, seeds of Gramsci’s party-as-Prince concept.
• XREF: connects to: Machiavelli’s politics demanded drawing rulers closer to the people; Machiavelli derived political rules from objective conditions of struggle, not ethics; Machiavelli wrote as an agitator urging action, not as a systematic theorist — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 619 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Machiavelli’s politics demanded drawing rulers closer to the people; Machiavelli derived political rules from objective conditions of struggle, not ethics; Machiavelli wrote as an agitator urging action, not as a systematic theorist — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 619 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Machiavellianism correlates with social dominance but opposes right-wing authoritarianism #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1012