Wesolowski explains power differentials in communist society in the following way. Social life, particularly in large, complex societies, would be impossible without ‘positions of command and subordination’.
This inevitably involves power differentials, ‘For as soon as the positions of authority are filled, those who occupy the positions have the right (and duty) to give orders, while the others have the duty to obey them’. Wesolowski implies that in communist societies, those in positions of authority use their power for the benefit of society as a whole. Again his arguments are similar to those applied by Western functionalists to the analysis of capitalist society.