Political Structure Quotes

• Every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Transformation
  • Forces
  • Stream

• The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynamical equilibrium, characterized by decreasing specific entropy and increasingly dense free-energy flows, accessed and processed by more and more complex social, economic, and political structures.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Equilibrium
  • Regions
  • Information technology

• The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

  

  Bob Avakian
  • Democracy
  • Capitalism
  • Essense