Manuel Castell’s general power law, 1976-2009

According to Manuel Castells the first law of society is a power law: if there is domination there is resistance to domination. In this article, we analyze that postulate, which is displayed between 1976 and 2009, taking into account three aspects: its concrete application in our author’s social research, those arguments belonging to Castells himself which tend to refute it, and finally a limited dialoque with the fifth proposition about power that makes Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality . This process will allow us to identify the main theoretical operations and conceptual change movements our author displays in relation to the mentioned general law, as well as to try a general critique of his position