ABSTRACT
If the insight is intuitive, as with certain Fascists doctrines, nothing is added to the initial demand for faith. For if the leader possesses an intuition denied to lesser men, no reasons can be given for his authority that lesser men could understand. His assurances that the future will be thus and thus must be taken on trust.*
In the Communist version of the doctrine, however, the insight is said to be scientific. The historical drama is played out by conflicting classes of which one, the proletariat, is the revolutionary agent that will bring about the inevitable classless society. Leadership belongs as of right to the Communist Party as 'the most active and politically conscious', 'the vanguard of the working people in the struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system'.7 Its role is that of the most dynamic force in history, conscious of its mission and assured of ultimate victory. All this can be proved, it is said, by its science of history-dialectical materialism.
