Movements need to be about the people, not a person

Chomsky’s entire political philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the idea that correct politics requires specialized expertise

When Rudolf Rocker’s Nationalism and Culture was released in 1937, it was hailed by no less an assemblage of luminaries than Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and Thomas Mann. The historian Will Durant called it “magnificent” and “profound,” and even the New Republic gave it a positive notice