why do so many people seem to have a hierarchy allergy round these Western leftist parts
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I'm in favour of democratic and meritocratic hierarchies, against hereditary and class-based ones.
People criticize MLs for hierarchical structures and claim that "power corrupts" yadda yadda, but this is idealist nonsense IMO. The slightest knowledge on the people who ended up in charge of the most historically important ML organizations (Fidel, Che, Rosa, Liebknecht, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh...) will show that no, power itself does not corrupt, since all of these people were never, ever corrupted. Mistaken? Yes, at times. Corrupted? No. The fact that MLs historically managed to consistently elect (in one form or the other) literally the most hardworking, selfless, knowledgeable and capable people such as the examples I provided, proves to me that democratic centralism is actually a good idea.