The key to social dynamics that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. This brilliant study brings a new order of comprehension into the problems of human government. Russell analyses the forms that power can take, and the limits and interactions of its different organs. He discusses the effects of ideas and moral codes in buttressing or undermining power. Russell finally explains how power can, and must, be tamed. This volume includes a new introduction by Kirk Willis, University of Georgia.