Administrative standing substitutes for political legitimacy

Evidence

Thus the bureaucracy became estranged from the country, and via its administrative positions became a true political party, the worst of all, because the bureaucratic hierarchy replaced the intellectual and political hierarchy. The bureaucracy became precisely the State/Bonapartist party. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 873

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does bureaucratic rule interact with liberal representative institutions elsewhere in Gramsci?
• XREF: connects to: Democratic legitimacy depends on citizens’ internalized commitment that imposed systems cannot replace — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 74

Related

• Rejecting parliamentarianism need not entail rehabilitating bureaucracy (similarity 0.79)