In the frame of the debate on the foundations of politics examined in this book, this chapter addresses the question of political poverty, which serves as a crucial element for tackling and expanding this discourse. The concept of political poverty is approached through an ontological perspective informed by Aristotelian logic, where more or less essential and foundational properties of politics are, in principle, considered in opposition to as many forms of poverties. The chapter thus investigates whether there are properties that are indispensable for politics. Is there one or more properties of which politics cannot be deprived without ceasing to be political? Alternatively, according to Aristotelian logic, is there a specific form of poverty whose mere presence obstructs the existence of politics? To engage with these ontological inquiries regarding the fundamental property/poverty inherent in politics, the chapter revisits Kafka’s pericope Before the Law. By analysing key interpretations of this narrative—particularly those by Derrida and Agamben—this chapter proposes an original hermeneutic approach, asserting the heuristic value of the exegesis of this pericope and its symbolic elements as a starting point for the investigation. It thus introduces the primary topic developed throughout the book: the foundation of politics. This story establishes the possibility of addressing the aforementioned questions concerning ‘the ontological conditions of politics’. The latter expose the onto-topo-logical context in which the question of the foundation of politics is situated. This character suggests that politics, whatever it is, operates under mandatory conditions that represent an unsurpassable law from which man cannot evade. However, these conditions appear to be aporetic regarding their relationship with the political being and/or the being of the political. On one hand, the human being is naturally predisposed to politics, driven by inescapable conditions that compel this inclination. On the other hand, there is a risk that the human being may fail to fully embrace this appointment, thus not achieving their potential as political beings. The chapter delves into this aporia and its implications for defining the property and poverty of politics. To illustrate this, it examines how Before the Law meticulously portrays the aporetic condition of politics, depicting it as the condition of the man called to go beyond the unsurpassable door of the law. This not only represents a significant pressure on the potential application of Aristotelian logic to differentiate between property and poverty of politics but also underscores a profound logical tension between politics understood as being and becoming. Any response to the initial questions of the chapter must grapple with the challenge of distinguishing between the political as a condition of being or becoming—or indeed, both—along with their respective topological and temporal implications. The chapter ultimately concludes by emphasising the need to investigate the fundamental property and poverty of the political conceived as a being and/or a becoming. Kafka’s pericope exemplifies the logical tension permeating the political space (and time), in which one is already part of yet must still enter. This evokes a sense of a porous threshold between the political as a being already present and a becoming always to come. This threshold delineates the difference between the political as a starting condition and a final goal, each characterised by relative properties/poverties that will be examined in the subsequent chapters of the book, all aimed at addressing the foundational question of politics.