Crick’s understanding of the nature of political rule

If we speak about politics first we have to define what it is. According to BERNARD CRICK “politics can be defined as the activity by which differing interests within given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them a share in power in proportion to their importance to the welfare and the survival of the whole community”.

He also rise the importance to realize that for all mechanism to function there must be a kind of “consensus juris” or “a common good”, while in role of this common good we see “the process of practical reconciliation of the interests of the various … aggregates … which compose a state”. Then politics it is “an activity which must be carried on”, “one simply becomes more and more aware that one is involved in it as part of the human condition”.

What is really important to stress, politics can only exist as “a stable and possible method of rule” where there is some “settled order” as well as “tolerance and diversity” and where “it has been preceded by sovereignty”.

Actually, I was rather shocked by the words “whether one is powerful enough to ignore diplomacy”, as in my understanding it means that in fact you do not need any rules being powerful, consequently you do not need politics. Nevertheless, “the only political agreement to use political means”.