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Role of popular leaders and movements​

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Some figures emerge from social movements as leaders of the people, whether they choose or accept these labels or not: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Desmond Tutu. Some movements are leader-less, their power decentralized and dispersed: the animal liberation movement, radical environmentalism, Occupy. Though I have read his essay before, I was intrigued by this tension between a leader-driven social movement (Simons) read next to a leader-less movement (Kohrs Campbell).

In “Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements,” Herbert W. Simons attempts to theorize and analyze the role of persuasion in social movements through the lens of how they are led. In order to theorize these social movements—defined as “an uninstiutionalized collectivity that mobilizes for action to implement a program for the reconstitution of social norms or values” (386)—he establishes a framework:

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Desmond Tutu. Some movements are leader-less, their power decentralized and dispersed

The role of the leader, then, is to balance the internal demands of the movement’s people with the external demands of the larger structure in order to ameliorate (somehow) the rhetorical problems of the conflict. This is a conflicted place to be both ethically and practically