Status Updates From Het begrip politiek

The negation of the political, which is inherent in every consistent individualism, leads necessarily to a political practice of distrust toward all conceivable political forces and forms of the state and government, but never produces on its own a positive theory of state, government and politics.

As a result, there exists an antithesis against state, church or other institutions which restrict individual freedom.

The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

In its entirety the state as an organized political entity decides for itself the friend-enemy distinction.