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Donald Clark Hodges

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'''Donald Clark Hodges''' (1923-2009) was a philosophy professor at [[Florida State University]], who has written a great deal about revolutions and revolutionaries (especially about southern and middle America).<ref>[http://bit.ly/2FWbeCc Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism by Donald Clark Hodges]</ref>

Growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he returned to the USA in 1941. He was a student of [[James Burnham]], the man who became famous in 1941 with "The Managerial Revolution", in which he argued that both in the Communist and the capitalist world the managers "rule the world". He studied [[Machiavelli]] extremely well, plus everyone who later felt inspired by Machiavelli.Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) Hodges understood that not [[Il Principe]] is Machiavelli's main work, but [[Discourses on Livy|Il Discorsi]].Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)

Hodges was an avid writer, after having earned his Doctor of Philosophy from [[Columbia University]] in 1954.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2FKo4Ey Writers Directory]</ref> He was a professor at [[University of Missouri]], [[University of South Florida]], as well as at Florida State University, and retiring after 39 years. He did extensive research in Latin America.

Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism deals with [[Cesare Borgia]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Robespierre]], [[Babeuf]], [[Filippo Buonarroti]], Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, [[George Orwell]], [[Céline]], [[Boris Yeltsin]] and their relation to Machiavelli.

==Selected works==
* The Latin American Revolution: Politics and Strategy from Apro-Marxism to Guevarism, W. Morrow, 1974, ISBN 0-688-00315-X
* The Legacy of Che Guevara: A Documentary Study, Thames and Hudson, 1977, ISBN 0-500-25056-1
* Argentina, 1943-1987: the national revolution and resistance. University of New Mexico Press, 1988.
* The Literate Communist: 150 Years of the "Communist Manifesto (Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory) (1991)
* Argentina's "Dirty War": An Intellectual Biography (1991)
* Sandino's Communism: Spiritual Politics for the Twenty-First Century (1992)
* Mexican Anarchism After the Revolution (1995). University of Texas Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-292-73097-7.
* Class Politics in the Information Age (2000)
* with Ross Gandy (2001) Mexico, the end of the revolution. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-275-97330-1, ISBN 978-0-275-97330-8
* with Ross Gandy (2002) Mexico Under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism. Zed Books. pp. 25, 85–87, 107–115. ISBN 1-84277-125-6.
* Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism (2003)
* Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution (2010)
* Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution (2014)

==References==


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