A century of “Hate and Coarse Thinking”: anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism in H.G. Wells' The New Machiavelli (1911)

► Wells's The New Machiavelli (1911) is a par excellence example of twentieth-century anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism. ► Wells's use of anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism is clear and deliberate. ► In politics, it structures the deception required for mass representation, partisanship, and politics as a vocation. ► For individuals, it enables unlimited self-deception. ► For Wells, anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism is a defining and pervasive, not a tangential, feature of individual morality and political rhetoric.