In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power, ” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls “realism.”Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution… One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders. . Paulo Freire
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The left thinks that they are not to be manipulated. If they are, then the left will fight back and try to get back into power. This is because the left believes that they can help to create change. This is looking at things from a superficial point of view.

The left has to walk a fine line between staying in power and keeping the people happy. If they do not take care of their people, they can no longer rule. However, if they take care of their people, the left ends up becoming like the right in that it is in it self self-serving and has no interest in the well-being of others.

Source: Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

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