Politics as vocation  by Max Weber

What do we understand by politics? The concept is extremely broad and comprises any kind of

independent

leadership in action. One speaks of the currency policy of the banks, of the discounting policy of the

Reichsbank, of the strike policy of a trade union; one may speak of the educational policy of a municipality

or a township, of the policy of the president of a voluntary association, and, finally, even of the policy of a

prudent wife who seeks to guide her husband. Tonight, our reflections are, of course, not based upon such a

broad concept. We wish to understand by politics only the leadership, or the influencing of the leadership,

of a

political

association, hence today, of a

state.

 

I chose this text which was in the introduction of his essay because it says how politics can be represented in any sphere of society, either family, schools, work, government and how the focus needs to be made more specifically on government since there is no kind of leadership being made and everything is so communal. This is interesting because this is one of the reasons Hitler was elected because he represented an unified kind of leadership.