In prison, power is manifested in its naked state, its most excessive form, and it is justified as moral force. It is Good over Evil, or order over disorder. V. Schools resemble prisons and factories are its closest approximation. Power is always exercised at the expense of the people. The popular courts such as those found in the Revolution, were a means for the lower middle class, who were allied with the masses, to salvage and recapture the initiative in the struggle against the judicial system.
Power emphatically develops a total or global vision.
B. We no longer define reality as a continuation of politics in the traditional sense of competition and the distribution of power through agencies of the Communist Party or the General Workers Union. C. Reality is what actually happens in factories, in schools, in barracks, in prisons, in police stations. An these actions carry a type of information which is different from that found in newspapers. We continue to ignore the problem of power. Power is at once visible and invisible, present and hidden, ubiquitous.