The second is that any agents who are relatively powerful in the initial situation,and wish to maintain their power advantage,have a clear interest in minimizing the chances of the relatively powerless successfully forming such a plural subject' and, if such a mutually binding coalition comes to passถ้า, working to undermine it: the classic maxims of the powerful (divide and rule) and of the powerless (in unity, strength) both have their basis in this feature of power.