Do we need leaders? Most people think we do. Even the Green Party, reputed to be one of the most ‘horizontal’ in their organisation, are currently locked in a leadership struggle between different candidates. This is a symptom of the almost universal notion that positive change can only happen if certain exceptional individuals hold power – even though reality has shown us time and time again that this is an illusion.
The kind of society the Socialist Party works for is borderless, wageless and moneyless – and entirely leaderless. It will come about when most people’s sense of powerlessness has given way to a recognition of the need for a society of entirely democratic organisation and decision-making – with no leaders and no followers.
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Except that we have a Catch 22 situation. Socialism requires a confident and determined working class to bring it about. But the working class is imbued by capitalism with dependency, nationalism and hopelessness. It is this working class which must establish socialism. The confident population that will typify a socialist society does not yet exist. Catch 22.
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