The Leninist idea of a global, progressive movement with its own power playing, radical vanguard is not all bad. The vanguard just need a much clearer understanding of the development of society, and of developmental psychology, than what Lenin and his contemporaries had. And we need a code of ethics that they lacked—starting with non-violence and a commitment to understand, empathize with and listen to others. The members of this group have to love power. But not the power of self over others; rather, the power of selves and others, the power to self-organize in complex fashions—transpersonal
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