>>11134122Every "right" is a manifestation of power dynamics born out of competing groups and power struggles.
"My rights - are part of my power which others have not merely conceded me, but which they wish me to preserve."
"How do these others arrive at that? First: through their prudence and fear and caution: wheter in that they expect something similar from us in return...; or in that they consider that a struggle with us would be perilous or to no purpose;"
-Nietzsche
Say that the working class is financially and politically impoverished. Tired of the situation, they organise together in a militant labour movement and threaten to overthrow the state. The state then recognises the working class as powerful. Powerful enough to pose a threat. And because they recognise this power, they decide to implement certain labour rights. These rights are not implemented because the state is benevolent, or because it's enacting some eternal moral law. Rather, they are implementing these rights as a compromise between two competing powerful groups, in the hope that this will appease the other party.
"That is how rights originate: recognised and guaranteed degrees of power"
-Nietzsche
"If power-relationships undergo any material alteration, rights disappear and new ones are created - as in demonstrated in the continual disappearance and reformation of rights between nations."
"If our powerful is materially diminished, the feelings of those who have hitherto guaranteed our rights changes: they consider whether they can restore us to the full possession we formerly enjoyed - if they feel unable to do so, they henceforth deny our "rights".
-Nietzsche
