Comrade, do not let the liberal desire for middle managers that boost the bottom line taint the concept.
Those whose passion and unwavering loyalty to the people earn their place, they are not inherently better due to blood or class.
Ho Chi Minh, who led a revolution not just against the Japanese Empire, but the French and American Empires, too.
Lenin, who led the Bolsheviks to victory to establish the great Soviet Union.
Sankara, whose short tenure liberated Burkina Faso.
Leaders are able to inspire and direct the fury of the proletariat to a better future with charisma, knowledge and integrity. It’s easy for greedy to be corrupted, it’s easy for the cowardly to surrender, it’s easy for the unwise to be defeated. It is difficult to sacrifice comfort to fight for a slight chance at liberation.
Against overwhelming odds, leadership is necessary to survive, let alone emerge victorious.
None of those people lived in a vacuum, their success is, like all things, circumstantial and influenced primarily by the work and effort of other people. Yes, Lenin did a lot of good, but we focus on him primarily because he was just coincidentally in the position that granted the most attention. Nothing he did could have been done without the work of hundreds of party members other than himself.
Do not confuse criticism of leadership as a concept with criticism of organizers. Someone who is more willing and more able to organize people together is a very real phenomenon, as with all skills; but “leadership” implies an elevated position, a worthiness above the average person. This is not real, because like all conceptions of worth, we made it up.
Comrade, do not let the liberal desire for middle managers that boost the bottom line taint the concept.
Those whose passion and unwavering loyalty to the people earn their place, they are not inherently better due to blood or class.
Ho Chi Minh, who led a revolution not just against the Japanese Empire, but the French and American Empires, too.
Lenin, who led the Bolsheviks to victory to establish the great Soviet Union.
Sankara, whose short tenure liberated Burkina Faso.
Leaders are able to inspire and direct the fury of the proletariat to a better future with charisma, knowledge and integrity. It’s easy for greedy to be corrupted, it’s easy for the cowardly to surrender, it’s easy for the unwise to be defeated. It is difficult to sacrifice comfort to fight for a slight chance at liberation.
Against overwhelming odds, leadership is necessary to survive, let alone emerge victorious.
None of those people lived in a vacuum, their success is, like all things, circumstantial and influenced primarily by the work and effort of other people. Yes, Lenin did a lot of good, but we focus on him primarily because he was just coincidentally in the position that granted the most attention. Nothing he did could have been done without the work of hundreds of party members other than himself.
Do not confuse criticism of leadership as a concept with criticism of organizers. Someone who is more willing and more able to organize people together is a very real phenomenon, as with all skills; but “leadership” implies an elevated position, a worthiness above the average person. This is not real, because like all conceptions of worth, we made it up.