ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the personalization of the political, where both the political and the personalist agents are motivated by a belief that they can improve the condition of their fellow men. This is the first characteristic they share. The shared premise of the personal and the political change-agents is a faith in their seminal and unique role as moralists. In spite of the obvious transcendentalist elements in both radical political and personalist theories, both rely heavily on a deterministic social accounting of the social process. The personalist belief in the unique moral competence of the change-agents also shows how deeply embedded this belief is in the very history of social betterment. The great personalist and political change-agents have implied such 'extraterritorial' claims; Freud and Lenin appeared convinced of their unique missions. The ultimate authority and warrant of both personalist and political intervention is an imagined global and non-fragmented human relationship between persons.
