[fporretto]

For part one, go here: Terminus

[Noumenon]

The Gramscian meme - that which we see in its highly successful implementation today - is that of chaos and conquer. That in turn is an adaptation of Machiavelli's own play book.

As Mark Twain said, "History may not repeat itself, but it surely does rhyme."

[PGalt]

HOORAY Porretto! Thanks for the links. Terminus (proposals) - OUTSTANDING! (long time...no see...on this forum)

[Moltke]

Divide et impera. Divide to conquer.

Sorry pal, that's divide and conquer. (Actually the literal translation is: divide and rule.) The difference between 'divide to conquer' and 'divide and rule' is significant in the temporal sense (what comes first...).