Revolutionary Politics - What Is It?

Cromwell didn't start out by saying, Oh, I'm going to start as a member of the landed gentry. George Washington didn't really want to be a political leader at all. Napoleon was an ambitious young man, but he was improvising all along the way. And that is the bit about ego. For a variety of reasons, our leaders have come to regard their own decisions and choices as vital to the health and well being of their society. To remove themselves from the situation would be to doom society to a return to chaos.