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On Politics

Politics is a fundamental part of human existence, a constituting element of society, i.e., there cannot be real humanity without it. Unavoidably, politics exists, first, because man is a socio-historical being with contradictory aspirations, and second, because social development is not set beforehand but, on the contrary, is always undetermined. It emerges fully, as an autonomous category, when, within a given society, the kinship system can no longer regulate conflicts and determine common objectives. At the same time, it constitutes both a practice and a field.

As a practice, politics can be defined as the art of decision-making concerning the...