The 'Objectivity' of a Liberatory Project and the Issue of 'Leaders': Preliminary Notes - in the Sequel of the Marx-Proudhon Exchange

Abstract

After dealing with the 'objectivity' of a liberatory project, we go on to discuss the attacks on various liberatory projects on the grounds that they are centred around a 'leader' (who usually is the engineer of the project in question). We then see how these two factors may influence the possible deterioration of a liberatory project. This is done by referring to a historic example, the influence of the characters of Marx and Proudhon on the socialist and anarchist movements respectively, while trying to understand whether it is the personal traits or the 'objectivity' of a particular project that is to blame for it possibly becoming authoritarian during its realisation.