Making revolutionary movements all about the leaders and what they did is anti marxist and plays right into liberal and even fascist politics.
A lot of reactionary trends in workers revolutions past played cults of personality to their advantage.
It does nothing to raise workers consiousness, if everything is the because of the genius actions of one great leader, then the workers do not realise their collective power.
It's just that having a big personalized enemy imbues your narratives with pathos in a way that having a faceless system as an enemy just doesn't, which is why leftoids break this supposedly fundamental rule of their own analyses all the time.
Making revolutionary movements all about the leaders and what they did is anti marxist and plays right into liberal and even fascist politics.
A lot of reactionary trends in workers revolutions past played cults of personality to their advantage.
It does nothing to raise workers consiousness, if everything is the because of the genius actions of one great leader, then the workers do not realise their collective power.
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It's just that having a big personalized enemy imbues your narratives with pathos in a way that having a faceless system as an enemy just doesn't, which is why leftoids break this supposedly fundamental rule of their own analyses all the time.