Although anarchists like to contend that leadership and any form of authority is in fact just an imposition that is irrational and can be eliminated, by glancing at the history of politics and political parties, it appears clear that it instead constitutes a fundamental necessity of political party, a necessary evil one may say, rooted in the impossibility of the masses to self-organise. For Weber an organisation can exist only if it subordinates itself to a leader and an organisational staff that represents it in the public arena. In other words, one cannot speak of organisation without some
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