Continuing dialogue is what prevents a revolution from hardening into counter-revolutionary bureaucracy.

Evidence

The educational, dialogical quality of revolution, which makes it a “cultural revolution” as well, must be present in all its stages. This educational quality is one of the most effective instruments for keeping the revolution from becoming institutionalized and stratified in a counter-revolutionary bureaucracy; for counter-revolution is carried out by revolutionaries who become reactionary. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 442

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The key self-guard against vanguardism: dialogue is not pre-power strategy but the permanent anti-bureaucratization mechanism.
• QUESTION: Core to reader’s contest: does Freire’s own method actually preserve this, or does the facilitator’s ‘correct consciousness’ reintroduce the bureaucracy within the classroom?
• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary ends must already be present in the means and in the revolutionaries. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 212