This is, among the members of a party, the only difference between an activist and a plain voter. When taking up the revolutionary fight, one expects no less than a position as commissioner of the people. After all, there would not be much sense in giving less from oneself than what was given when taking up the responsibility of active leader in the destruction of capitalism. All revolutionary activism is therefore inseparable from the craving for power, and it takes either a brutal shamelessness or a pathological unconsciousness to prevent someone from realizing that such a passion is infinitely more destructive than the wish for wealth. Power, on the other hand, as Nietzsche well saw it, is nothing if it cannot be more power.
Power is domain over men.
A rich man does not become poor when his neighbours also get rich. On the other hand, a power that eventually gets equalled by other powers is automatically cancelled out. Wealth is developed by the adding up of goods whereas power, essentially, does not increase so much by the expansion of its means than by the suppression of other men's means of action. A dictator does not become a dictator because he grants himself new rights, but because he suppresses the old rights from the people. It was the inescapable consequence of a suicidal wager on the moral superiority of political power and its equalitarian social mission.