Leaders move to the people either horizontally or triangulated against them

Evidence

Thus, due to certain historical conditions, the movement by the revolutionary leaders to the people is either horizontal—so that leaders and people form one body in contradiction to the oppressor—or it is triangular, with the revolutionary leaders occupying the vertex of the triangle in contradiction to the oppressors and to the oppressed as well. As we have seen, the latter situation is forced on the leaders when the people have not yet achieved a critical perception of oppressive reality. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 526

Categorization

• DEFINE: Two structural geometries of the leader-people relation — a precise axis for judging any redesign’s topology.
• XREF: connects to: Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 279