Revolutionaries can unconsciously retain the oppressor within themselves.

Evidence

It perhaps also explains the antidialogical behavior of persons who, although convinced of their revolutionary commitment, continue to mistrust the people and fear communion with them. Unconsciously, such persons retain the oppressor within themselves; and because they “house” the master, they fear freedom. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 627

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s stated concern: the facilitator who already knows the ‘correct’ consciousness is the vanguard Freire himself worries about here. — connects to: Revolutionary ends must already be present in the means and in the revolutionaries. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 212
• SEED: Essay angle: the pedagogy facilitator as ‘housed oppressor’ — how well-intentioned teacher-leaders reproduce the very authoritarianism they aim to dismantle.