The Axis

We seek power

Entirely for its own sake

We are not interested in the good of others

We are interested solely in power

Pure power

What pure power means

You will understand presently

We are different from the oligarchies of the past

In that we know what we are doing

All the others, even those who resembled ourselves

Pretended, perhaps they even believed

That they had seized power unwillingly

And for a limited time

And that just around the corner there lay a paradise

Where human beings would be free and equal

We are not like that!

We know what no one ever seizes power

With the intention of relinquishing it

Power is not a means; it is an end

One does not establish a dictatorship

In order to safeguard a revolution

One makes the revolution

In order to establish the dictatorship

The object of persecution is persecution

The object of torture is torture

The object of power is power

Now, you begin to understand me