ABSTRACT
In both Max Weber and Lenin, there is a tendency to fuse the answers to the question "What is to be done?" with the answer to "Who is to do it?" For Weber, rationalization of social relationships runs counter to all forms of political and social democracy. Weber is thus arguing that democratization is a more complex phenomenon than would have the standard argument for "mass society." In the politics of true statesmen, Weber holds out the possibility of a transformation by the intrusion of the purely personal, the not yet rationalized. Lenin and Weber share a common concern with ail that openly or covertly partakes of and reinforces the presently dominant society. From the point of view of the proletarian, Lenin may be seen in terms precisely like those that have been used for a Weberian leader. The call in both Lenin and Weber and the Final justification of the actions of the political responsible actor is "maturity."
