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1993 – 2016:(6) “Political Power Is the Power of Class Domination” Chapter Six of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

Continuing with my translation of Chapter Six of the The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science 《政治的逻辑 马克思主义政治学原理》“Political Power Is the Power of Class Domination”. The Logic of Politics was written by Chief Editor/Author Wang Huning 王沪宁 and a group of academics in the early 1990s. The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science was first published in 1993 and…

1993 – 2016:(6) “Political Power Is the Power of Class Domination” Chapter Six of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

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The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class. The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance towards a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class and the latter are permitted to remain in power under the impression that in obeying and serving them, we are obeying and serving society, the nation, the great collectivity of all of us.

The State, Randolph Bourne

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In and of itself, this self-justification that “we did not seize power not because we were unable but because we did not wish to, because we were against every kind of dictatorship,” and the like, contains an irrevocable condemnation of anarchism as an utterly anti-revolutionary doctrine. To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory. It is impossible to lead the masses towards insurrection without preparing for the conquest power.

Leon Trotsky (The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning, 1937)

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Terrorism & American Discourse

A slightly more in-depth analysis of the concept of “terrorism” than the shorthand ‘brown=terrorist, white=madman’ narrative