Leaders who impose decisions oppress themselves as much as the people

Evidence

Organizing the people is the process in which the revolutionary leaders, who are also prevented from saying their own word, initiate the experience of learning how to name the world. This is true learning experience, and therefore dialogical. So it is that the leaders cannot say their word alone; they must say it with the people. Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people—they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 571

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s vanguard concern — Freire argues even the revolutionary leader is ‘prevented from saying their own word,’ so imposition oppresses leader and led alike. This is the heart of the dialogical rebuilding of the teacher/student relation. — connects to: Fascist leaders subjectively drive the catastrophe they always expected