hood. Revolutionary guardians confront them in every meeting of every group. The real enemies of revolutionary vanguards are independent workers. Their independence, their rejection of revolutionary leadership, sows the seeds of anarchy. Their rejection of revolutionary discipline creates chaos in every office and department of the revolutionary establishment. Their demands are not new to the guardians. A number of previous workers had also called for general undifferentiation of job function, abolition of serious professional technical work, the abolition of the political probation period prior to becoming a voting member of the staff, the abolition of centralized direction of production. Some have wanted to abolish any form of leadership, or 'hierarchy' in their terms, altogether. The guardians have discussed these and similar demands, usually grouped by their advocates under the rubric of 'workers' control and internal democracy,' and have democratically—at times unanimously, rejected them. The real enemies of the revolutionary vanguard are all those who reject the modern
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