Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method
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- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.90)
- Power remakes the Orient through expedient knowledge that erases real histories (similarity 0.88)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.87)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.87)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.85)
- So-called objective accounts encode the standpoint of the powerful (similarity 0.84)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.84)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.83)
- Power’s function is transferring reduced complexity, institutionalized through its code. (similarity 0.82)
- The master-producer relation is the hidden foundation of all political forms (similarity 0.82)
- Ideological scientificality overrides factual reality in totalitarian action (similarity 0.82)
- Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.82)
- Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.82)
- Engels rejected the view that the economic factor is the sole determinant of history. (similarity 0.82)
- The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic. (similarity 0.82)