Stephen M. Walt - Taming American Power: The Global Response To U.S. Primacy

Classical realism and neorealism can be identified as first of all being a reaction against fascism (Machiavelli suffering greatly at the hands of violent politics, himself being tortured and driven into exile) and a reaction against greed in Hobbe's writing who distinctly wrote on self-preservation and selfishness, which aligns greatly with capitalism. The realists believe in the communal aspect of a state, and neorealists believe that politicians are basically at fault, not the people who are led by these tyrants (John Mearsheimer's work Why Leaders Lie being a terrific example) and von Clausewitz really cemented this belief as he was never a politician but was ordered by politicians, therefore carrying out orders of war and learning the hard way politics can be thwarted with violence. Many neorealists have published scathing works on American primacy, which you can see on a daily basis results in suffering and carnage. The U.S.A also is the sole leading contributor to climate change.