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Hegelian ideas are used to explain the success of Lenin. Hegelsaccount of the World Historical Individual may be especially relevant atthis time because the dialectic between decentralised grassrootspolitics and the need for strong central authority not only figured inthe rise of Napoleon an example Hegel had much in mind but seems to beat work in the affairs of Mikhail Gorbachev as well. But one must bewarethe paradoxes associated with ideas of historical necessity. One canavoid them by talking of probabilities, and conceptualising theformation of leaders as a response to a market which has a tendency tomatch supply and demand. But this does not wholly explain thetendency of Marxist systems to produce leaders like Lenin, Stalin,Ceausescu, Hoxha, Tito and Castro. It is argued that such figures becomesurrogates for the free man of the future, and that the masses are alsoencouraged to live vicariously through them but it is also argued thatrevolutions produce the kind of chaos which creates a demand forauthority.
International Journal of Social Economics – Emerald Publishing
Published: May 1, 1991
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