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The article discusses how political theorists who self-identify as realists seek to position themselves who either support moralism or international relations (IR) realism. Topics discussed include the blind spot for current varieties of realism; conceptions of power and legitimacy in early twenty-first century political theory (PT) realism; and power and legitimacy in the age of the Internet.

Presents a reply regarding the theory of persons and state of philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Accounts on the theory of state in the book `English Leviathan'; Distinction between persons and nonpersons; Representation of a person by fiction; Complications of the concept of state.