I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view and then learning how to perform that function.
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.
A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory followership and an educated morally grounded leadership.
The function of the politician therefore is one of continuous watchfulness and activity and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society and act in accordance with that decision only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!