Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it

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• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.91)
• Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.90)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.89)
• Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.88)
• Power remakes the Orient through expedient knowledge that erases real histories (similarity 0.86)
• Power’s function is transferring reduced complexity, institutionalized through its code. (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony’s thesis absorbs opposition rather than being transcended by it (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.84)
• The master-producer relation is the hidden foundation of all political forms (similarity 0.84)
• Dispositional words like strength and ability are part of the power-code itself. (similarity 0.84)
• So-called objective accounts encode the standpoint of the powerful (similarity 0.84)
• A ruling party exercises hegemonic power without formal juridical rule (similarity 0.84)
• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.83)
• Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.83)