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by skissane 1233 days ago
> The answer is actually an easy one: yes he was personally responsible for the movement he started and he was personally responsible for his organisation's deeds.

Why assume that a person who founds an organisation is responsible for what it does when they are effectively no longer in control of it? We don’t make that automatic assumption in other areas - the founder of a company is not responsible for what the new CEO does after they retire.