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Charles V. Hamilton on Politics

born 1929 United States

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Political relations are based on self-interest: benefits to be gained and losses to be avoided. For the most part, man’s politics is determined by his evaluation of material good and evil. Politics results from a conflict of interests, not of consciences.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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