Anyone here, deep in their heart, an Anarchist?

[JoePhilly]

75. My point is that the emergence of leaders transcends capitalism.

The earliest humans did not have capitalism, and yet they had leaders.

As soon as you have TWO people, in certain situations one of them will be the leader. That individual will propose a common action, and then those two individuals will move forward.

Add a third person, and the dynamic becomes more complicated. You can see this with kids who are simply trying to decide which game to play next.

Add a forth, and the dynamic becomes more complex.

And so on.

And when you talk about "leadership behaviors", the reality is that a person who proposes outcomes that "the group" sees as positive most of the time ... those people become leaders.

There is a tremendous among of research in Social Psych on group dynamics and leadership. Most of it has nothing to do with capitalism.

Much of it looks at how a group can have multiple leaders, one who is action oriented, one who is socially oriented. The first tries to maximize some narrow group objective (order the pizza), the other focuses on the social cohesion (making sure that everyone will get a few slices that they will like).