Bureaucratic resistance to change is outweighed by competitive survival pressures.

Evidence

One can dispense with the notion of an innate “power-drive” in human nature. This is a highly dubious psychological concept and grossly inadequate for the analysis of societal developments. The question is not whether the communist bureaucracies would “give up” their privileged position once the level of a possible qualitative change has been reached, but whether they will be able to prevent the attainment of this level. In order to do so, they would have to arrest material and intellectual growth at a point where domination still is rational and profitable, where the underlying population can still be tied to the job and to the interest of the state or other established institutions. Again, the decisive factor here seems to be the global situation of coexistence, which has long since become a factor in the internal situation of the two opposed societies. The need for the all-out utilization of technical progress, and for survival by virtue of a superior standard of living may prove stronger than the resistance of the vested bureaucracies. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 219

Categorization

• XREF: Predictions of systemic change driven by international competition rather than internal will resonate with globalist debates about tech competition forcing platform concessions. — connects to: Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure; Individual resistance cannot withstand coercive organizational evil, so prevention must be structural. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4036; The scale and momentum of bureaucratic machinery enables resignation to evil. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3907 (+1 more)
• CANDY: The crisp deflation of ‘power-drive’ in human nature as a ‘highly dubious psychological concept’ is an elegant dismissible for a common pop-evolutionary psychology trope.

Broader Connections

• Individual resistance cannot withstand coercive organizational evil, so prevention must be structural. #corroborates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4036
• Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure #corroborates (0.82)
• The scale and momentum of bureaucratic machinery enables resignation to evil. #qualifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3907
• Reform-minded dissent within a system strengthens rather than threatens it #complicates (0.72)