"The category of persuasion is tightly linked with Platonic-Christian anthropology, with the thesis of the presence in every man of the idea of God as foundation of his transcendence with respect to history, of his freedom; https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1278706822208196608

hence, social change will be possible as a consequence of man’s change (of his conversion, of the reawakening in him of the idea of God); the movement must go from man to society. But in the Marxist position there is no essential man prior to the existing man: therefore man's

change will be a consequence of social change. ... Human universality is not something eternal against which the present must be measured, it is a future for the sake of which we must make good use of the present.” (DN 1964)