Public power: essence, emergence, historical development, forms. Semenov Yu.I.

In this work, the historical evolution of various forms of power is considered. Of all the forms of power in society, the most significant is the one that can be called strong -willed. Its essence lies in the presence of imperious will, which determines, determines the subject will, and thereby - the actions of the carriers of these will. The most important form of volitional power on the scale of society is the power that can be called social will: the power will is the will of the whole society as a whole, that is, all its members combined, and by subject will - the will of the same members of society, but only taken separately. The most striking forms of this kind of social will are, firstly, a taboo (system of hard prohibitions, taboos), and, secondly, primitive morality. Subsequently, along with morality, step by step began to arise another way to regulate relations between people, which is called primitive ordinary law. With the transition to civilization and the split of society into classes with diametrically opposite interests, the one will have changed the opposite will of the society. But society continued to need a single government. In these conditions, the only way to ensure the unity of power was the imposition of the will of the same class to the whole society, namely the class of exploiters. This could only be done by using force, which was impossible without creating a special apparatus of violence. So the states, the state apparatus, and then the state, or legal, law arose. But the usual right did not disappear immediately; For a long time it continued to exist and function in a class society. The book is recommended for historians, political scientists, philosophers, as well as a wide circle of readers who are interested in the history of the development of power relations in society.