Revolutionary leaders who postpone dialogue until after power deny the revolution’s educational nature.

Evidence

It is worth analyzing some fundamental points of the above assertions. These men and women (or most of them) believe in the necessity for dialogue with the people, but do not believe this dialogue is feasible prior to taking power. When they deny the possibility that the leaders can behave in a critically educational fashion before taking power, they deny the revolution’s educational quality as cultural action preparing to become cultural revolution. On the other hand, they confuse cultural action with the new education to be inaugurated once power is taken. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 439

Categorization

• QUESTION: This directly touches the reader’s stated concern about the vanguard who presumes the people cannot yet be dialogued with — worth testing whether Freire actually resolves it or merely asserts.