From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sun Dec 22 2002 - 16:49:33 MST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Lee Corbin
>
> I know that Bertrand Russell wrote a book entitled
> "Power", and I have that around somewhere and should
> dig it up. But it's bound to be pretty old, and I'm
> wondering if anyone knows of some good books on how
> power arises in human societies, why it's inevitable,
> how it really works, what it's good for, and so on.
>
> I think that an objective understanding of power may
> be a blind spot for all of us, but especially for
> libertarians.
War and Peace has a goodly number of interesting meanderings on this topic
amid the soap opera. I haven't read much else by Tolstoy, but I assume the
same theme crops up elsewhere in his works.
Reason
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