Talk:Power: A New Social Analysis

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Passed GA. May want to create articles for redlinks.Rlevse 20:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Traditional/Revolutionary/Naked Power
From what I can recall there is a cycle:

Traditional power is primarily based on a custom/habit. When this breaks down it may resort to naked power:

'If the traditional creeds are doubted without any alternative, then the traditional authority relies more and more on the use of naked power.'

In this context revolutionary power based on a new creed may emerge culminating in a conflict of naked force.

If/when the revolutionary power succeeds it's creed becomes the basis for a new traditional power, initially provisional but gradually consolidating over time. This continues for as long as it takes for general assent to it's creed to, in turn, decay, and the cycle repeats. Peaceandlonglife (talk) 15:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Too long
this article is clearly too long. Russell's work is very minor, his thesis outdated and irrelevant to mainstream thought on social sciences, anywhere except perhaps the anglopocentric world... it is just a 300 irrelevant pages books and you dedicate to it so many pages you might as well print the whole book. It amazes me that masters of the socialist, historic etc. schools with have a major impact in mankind and true history from sombart to spengler, from trotsky to Adorno have far less pages that this irrelevant work. i know wikipedia is mostly a vehicle for anglopocentric cultural domination but the fact this article is on top of its length, boredom and irrelevance highlighted as a master article is just hilarious — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.4.58.20 (talk) 19:21, 29 May 2015‎

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