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Bertrand russell 18721970 was a mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, and winner of the 1950 nobel prize for literature. Countering the totalitarian desire to dominate, russell shows how political enlightenment and human understanding can lead to peace his book is a passionate call for independence of mind and a celebration of the instinctive joy of human life. The first theme given treatment in the analysis is that the lust for power is a part of human nature. Read power a new social analysis by bertrand russell available from rakuten kobo. The key to human nature that marx found in wealth and freud in sex, bertrand russell finds in power.
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