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=====The break from premodern sovereignty=====
The beginning of the end for premodern politics started in the citystates of Italy. In Italy, forms of accumulation began to emerge that operated outside the feudal order. One such system was the various mercantile banks during the 14th and 15th centuries. Families like the Medicis began to delegitimize hereditary or religious claims to power by simply growing their wealth and influence. This material change correpsonded to a shift in the arena of political theory. The french theorist Luis Althusser (foundational to infrared thought), considered The ''[https://apeiron.iulm.it/retrieve/handle/10808/4129/46589/Machiavelli%2C%20The%20Prince.pdfThe Prince]'' by Machiavelli "the first materialist political philosophy"<ref>Luis Althusser, Machiavelli and Us, 1999</ref>. This is because Machiavelli described relations of power through a non-metaphysical lense.  

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. Hegelian/Zizekian concept of the fall. 

After the enlightenment, the ancien regime could no longer legitimize it's own claim to power. Instead we saw the rise of 'universal politics' where everyone '''by law''' and in a contractual manner was considered an equal participant of state politics. Open societies. 

This gives way to contradictions when material conditions assert themself over the pure form of liberal politics. For example, in western style democracies, we all have the true right to vote, but power itself is somewhere else; Deep states, oligarchies and burocracies.