Leaders become authentically installed only through communion with the people

Evidence

This truth, however, must become radically consequential; that is, the leaders must incarnate it, through communion with the people. In this communion both groups grow together, and the leaders, instead of being simply self-appointed, are installed or authenticated in their praxis with the praxis of the people. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 422

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Installed or authenticated in praxis’ answers the reader’s vanguard worry: legitimacy of the facilitator is earned dialogically, not premised on prior knowledge of the correct consciousness. — connects to: Leaders gain authority only by voicing the group’s unformulated intentions; Leaders are accepted only when embodying features shared with followers — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 153; Christian-right leader rhetoric is calibrated for an energized congregation — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 60