The Structure of the System of Civilization

In choosing subjection in a hegemanic body, a man neither gives nor ceives anything that is definite. He integrates himself into a system in which he has to render indefinite services and will receive what the director is willing to assign to him. The distinction between these two kinds of social co operation is common to all theories of society. Western civilization as well as the civilization of the more advanced eastern peoples are achievements of men who have co operated according to the pattern of contractual coordination.