Political power is good but political power can not survive without good economic power, political power is irrelevance if there is no good economy situations of any firm. It takes the economic power to build every other aspects of life.
Even government can not operates effectively if they lack or suffered economic kwashiorkor. Smooth organization operates as a function of good economy situations. When you economic power is stable and dignified, the evidence of Man's labour becomes very easy.
Borrowing from the words of Karl Marx that, those that owns economic power has a great influence on the political Will of the society and by extension they influence the decisions making as it affects the society.
For any government to have the capacity to control and wield political authority then it must also be self sufficient economically, must have the capacity to go into economic relations with other countries of the world .
Today we have rival and warring opposition groups within states fighting for occupation of certain geographical areas, it's not because they love to fight but because they want to take control of such area due to either a natural resource such as gold, crude oil, gas, etc that's found within such location and whosoever gain control also gains economic power with a tendency of capturing political power. In real sense of it all, political power is nothing without a correlation with economic control.