Walzer on Movements

"The movements they create, heroic in their origins, turn out later on to be lethargic, bureaucratic, corruptible.  The victories they win are incomplete and compromised; and often they don't win. If the masses can be mobilized, they can also be demobilized and dominated. And, what is most striking, they can be demobilized and dominated by militant elites acting in their own name-though also in the name of detachment, science and a false universalism." - Michael Walzer

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Source: Walzer, The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century