It’s not naive, it’s a personality trait. All the great anti-colonial leaders had it, from Castro to Mandela. That’s why so many of them were political prisoners.
The more persecuted they are, the more convinced they are of their righteousness and their own ideology. If you’re not willing to go to the end of your own conviction, then you will sell out eventually. That’s where most of us mortals are at. These people are built different.
Its not in line with dialectical materialism to turn revolutionaries into “great men” who are simply “built different”. Its a form of self-defeat actually.
Also yes persecution creates a counter-hegemony culture in general.
A lot of activists and leftists have their heart in the right place but are a little naive about the forces they’re dealing with.
It’s not naive, it’s a personality trait. All the great anti-colonial leaders had it, from Castro to Mandela. That’s why so many of them were political prisoners.
The more persecuted they are, the more convinced they are of their righteousness and their own ideology. If you’re not willing to go to the end of your own conviction, then you will sell out eventually. That’s where most of us mortals are at. These people are built different.
Its not in line with dialectical materialism to turn revolutionaries into “great men” who are simply “built different”. Its a form of self-defeat actually.
Also yes persecution creates a counter-hegemony culture in general.
It is dialectical to observe that repression creates resistance, though.
They’re not great men that are built different, they are products of their historical material conditions.