The problem with global poverty is at the core of philosophical and legal theory. The present essay is an attempt to display the necessary tools, beginning with Thomas Hobbes´s political thought, that will allow defending the following thesis: The concept of the political in which the state is justified solely as a warrant of rights of property and the fulfillment of contracts, withdrawing from the achievement of minimum existential necessities and thriving them to the “invisible hand” of the market, is of the main causes of poverty in the world today. To achieve the aforementioned the reader will find a interpretation of Hobbes that differs from traditional standards and it is mainly based on Carl Schmitt´s writings and its relation with the concept of “protection-obedience”