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The power that never lets go
2025-08-29 20:42:45 / EDITORIAL
In Albanian politics, we often hear talk about “saving democracy,” about “representing the people,” or about “the revolution that will bring about change.” If we strip the words of their pathetic rhetoric, all that remains is what George Orwell warned about in his dystopian novel, ‘1984,’ where he says that “we are not interested in the good of others; we are only interested in power, pure power… We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of withdrawing from it.”
This is the key to understanding why political parties behave more like private property than like democratic institutions. Power is not for them a means to achieve development, justice, or equality, but an end in itself. “They do not establish a dictatorship to protect the revolution,” says Orwell, “but they make a revolution to establish a dictatorship.”
How familiar this quote seems when you see how political dissatisfaction with the current system turns into ridiculous farces to preserve the status quo of 'one' and not to build a more open, democratic system based on competition and merit.
Everyone talks about internal democracy in their political parties or movements, but, in practice, every attempt at change turns into a fight for the survival of an individual. Just like Orwell's "Party" that cynically accepts that power does not need justifications, because no one will leave the chair voluntarily.
Today, when we see endless problems for the future of the opposition and its main party, sarcastic squabbles about the "new spirit" or rhetoric about protecting sovereignty and not turning the country into a "prosecutors' republic", we should not be surprised, because it is very clear that "power is not a means to something else, power is an end".
Our problem is precisely that our political class, and not only it, has embraced this very philosophy, causing accountability institutions to become a facade, democracy to become a boring ritual and the people a helpless spectator.
The truth is bitter, but it is necessary to face it, because, if we do not establish clear boundaries between the state and the parties, between the citizen and the leader who never gives up, then, we should not be surprised when we experience the same disaster that Orwell described in his work, the power that itself admits that it will never let go.
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