Progress can come only from mastery by an elite who take care to give the people no sovereignty.
In his notes Proudhon put himself down as the Manager in Chief, naturally not subject to the democratic control he so despised. Anarchists do not advocate political freedom. But since, rejecting democracy, it has no other way of resolving the inevitable disagreements and differences among the inhabitants of Theleme, its unlimited freedom for each uncontrolled individual is indistinguishable from unlimited despotism by such an individual, both in theory and practice. It is the other side of the coin of bureaucratic despotism, with all its values turned inside-out, not the cure or the alternative. Anarchism is often considered to represent current of radical thought that is truly democratic and libertarian.