COMMUNICATIONS 65 desired end. But programming, as we indicated above is not free from the concomitant theoretical and practical predicaments. To fight charisma as a bourgeois vice is to strike hard on the umbilical chord of the Indian masses which traditionally nourished this concept and hence, is to run the risk of mass disbelief. To adopt the other, it turns out, is to run straightaway within the fold of personality cult which stands, in all conceivable ways, contrary to Marxian precepts. Hence till a better theoretical solution is found out, the Marxist intellectuals, here, considering the objective situation, may use praxis of Lenin, Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh, who in their respective countries were considered, at a point of time, by their masses as charismatic personalities thrown up in the revolutionary convulsions. Ill To conclude this study. It may be fairly expressed that since Marx explicitly mentioned that the function of the Marxist intellectual is to pre-empt, accurately time, and study the revolutionary conditions precisely, there is no scope for confusion either in defining the coricept of a Marxist intellectual5 or about their function in a proletarian revolution. The attempt to distinguish between 'practising revolutionary' and 'Marxist academics' within the broad category of 'Marxist intellectual5 is, hence, un-Marxian. 'Charismatic Personality', to reiterate the second point, is referred to here with a definite intention to pinpoint the problem of crisis in leadership. To answer why the communist leadership fails to achieve the expected result in India, this new method of leadership study has been applied to indicate a phenomenon which is presumed, of course without further proof, to have exerted some influence. TAPASH K ROY CHOUDHURY 1 Irfan Habib, "Role of the Marxist Intellectuals in India Today^*, Social Scientist No 5, December 1972, p 59. 8 Wermerth-Stiber, Die Kommunis Verschwernngem in neumehnien Jahrhundert^ Berlin^ English Edition, 1853. 3 Mar^ and Engles, Selected Works, Vol I, Moscow 1962, p 363. 4 Irfan Habib, op. cit., p 61. ? Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation^ Free Press, 1947, pp 358-92. 6 Hid.,? 358-59. 7 /^W.,p360. 8 P Worseley, The Trumpet shall Sowd, Schocken Books, 1968, p XVIII. * A Etzioni, A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organisation^ The Free Press, 1961, p232. 10 W M Friedland, For a Sociological Concept of Charisma, Social Forces, October 1964-» pp 18-26. n A R and D Willner, The Rise and Role of Charismatic Leaders, Annals of the Ameri" can Academy of Political Science, 1965, pp 77-88.