It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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