"Does unlimited power actually lead to tyranny? How power competes and how the concept of "individual" was created."

Analysis of the writings of Bertrand De Jouvenel https://twitter.com/br_resistencia/status/1387914342113370117

Important: This paper argues that altruism plays an important role in expanding power — it's not just a "ruse" used cynically to trick people (at least, from the perspective of that power).

WARNING: If you are stuck inside your CIA/RAND Liberal Theory of Power reading list, you DO NOT see the real nature of power and will likely fail to grasp it in any of your political or revolutionary endeavors.

Paraphrasing:
Liberalism can only conceive of power as antisocial — when this is a fiction. Power is social. And it goes both ways, subject to ruler and ruler to subject.

A power mandate is extended not by direct confrontation but by offering social benefits and public services to the people.

Power's ally for ALL TIME — FOR ALL TIME, Taylor! — is the common people.

It's the leader and his people "in a conspiracy" together against the merchant class, hereditary nobles, and would-be plutocrats.

Before $doge was a coin:

Doge was going to DESTROY his own aristocracy because its fucked with his favorite sea captain.

A good ruler always picks his people over his banksters — even if it means his own death.

MUCH WOW. VERY HISTORY.

Let's flip this fucker on its head:

Liberal theory of history says Liberalism (and the Reformation) were grassroots struggles that OVERCAME an old power.

But Jouvenel and W.T. Cavanaugh basically argue Liberalism and the Reformation were SPOILS OF WAR offered by the NEW power!