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As James Burnham points out in his Politics as Wish, Dante Alighieri was a globalist – he advocated a single, unified world state. Dante contradicted himself in believing that only a single unified political administration can check tyranny and give man freedom. Burnham criticized Dante’s political theology because:

1. Dante’s ultimate goal – of eternal salvation in heaven is meaningless since heaven exists outside space and time and has no bearing on political action
2. Dante’s lesser goal is the self-fulfillment of all men is utopian and impossible.
3. Dante’s argument is academic and consist of pointless metaphysical and logical distinctions, distorted analogies, appeals to miracles and impractical. To Burhnam, Dante’s book De Monarahia The Monarchy is totally worthless.

But Burhnam pointed out that most books of the Middle Ages were written to esoterically to disguise their real meaning. As such we cannot take Dante’s words at face value but must be understood contextually. The real meaning of The Monarchy is the class struggle between The White Party (Guelphs) and The Black Party (Ghibellines). The Blacks were the party of the Papacy, the Ghibellines the Party of Empire. The purpose of the White Party was to block the advance of Empire.

Dante himself was a pharmacist who affiliated with the Knowledge Class of Ghibellines. The real meaning of Dante’s The Monarchy, was merely propagandistic defense of the Ghibelline Party Platform disguised as being pro-Pope. Both factions opposed the Burgher Class of merchants who wanted less war, commercial prosperity, and a politics of law instead of personal privilege. Dante was an infiltrator and traitor that espoused rotten politics disguised as poetry.

Read Burnham here
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/08/james-burnhams-dante-politics-as-wish/