The politics of struggle

When one desires to be ruled, one also desires and expects a certain kind of ruling that is appropriate to the power ratio. One craves for a certain amount of severity, deception and cruelty from the ruler, and may even call it 'love'. But when the ruler rules with a different or a lesser degree of severity (perhaps due to curiosity or pity or boredom), then the ruled seeks revenge and becomes ferocious. The latter creates a turmoil until the power ratios are restored. He calls this his 'revolution'. For, a deep concern with the restoration of the ratio is what determines the ruled as the ruled. The ruler, on the other hand, is a revolutionary in an entirely different sense because he is haunted with the creative spirit to tremble and upset the existing order of power relations, at times, even risking losing the power which is given to him over the ruled. The secret tragedy of the ruler arises from his disdain for the comfort of a rote repitition. The revolt of the ruled interprets this tragedy as the decadence of the ruler.