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The general concept is much older than even Nietzsche. I would put it at least as far back as the account of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic[1], a critique of Socrates' concept of justice:

I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm




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