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> What about teaching everyone non-sociopathic realpolitik instead? Teaching about an oxymoron?

• icebraining 9y ago
  It's not an oxymoron, it's in fact the definition of realpolitik, as coined by Ludwig von Rochau. It means having a principled position, while viewing the world as it is, without silly idealisms like the aforementioned just-world fallacy. The view of realpolitik as just a name for gaining power at any cost came later, and it's more prevalent in the English world. I can recommend John Bew's Realpolitik: A History, it's quite interesting if one enjoys the history of political thought.