This is what's really hard. How can you have an effective political movement that doesn't ossify into something authoritarian? How can you reconcile a decentralized, democratic structure with getting anything done?
I sez:
The conundra of the bureaucratic imperative go a lot deeper than that. Perhaps the most salient bugbear of revolutionary nationalist regimes is/was low-level and middle-level functionaries who are poorly trained and eager to please superiors, which at one and the same time leads to the botched implementation of putatively progessive initiatives and allows authoritarian types at the center to blame failed campaigns on incompetent bureaucrats rather that the lack of unaccountable state power.
But then again I've been reading select chunks of Hinton and Meisner on the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution...
John Gulick Knoxville, TN Morristown, NJ