> The language is interesting. It's as if it's all about retaining the
> innocence of perpetual youth, instead of aging into dullness. Thinking
> about goals and strategy is so elderly!
I think there's a lot of theory behind it though. It comes from Lukacs - the Party, as the agent of the proletariat, is the subject-object of history whose action is neither subjectively desirable nor historically necessary, nor both at once, but a dialectical fusion of necessity and rightness. That was his theoretical justification for Stalinist submission to the dictates of the Party: even when the Party made mistakes, they were the historically *correct* mistakes. Of course, the updated version has to junk the proletariat and substitute the Movement for the Party.
SA