Democratic control of bureaucracy can turn mechanization into liberation.

Evidence

A democratically controlled public bureaucracy, as opposed to a private one, would protect people from the misuse of technology and show that mechanization and standardization could be a means of liberating them from worries over material necessities. New forms of individuality would then become possible`natural’ individuality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 320

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does this early Marcuse optimism survive into his later pessimistic one-dimensionality thesis?
• XREF: connects to: Liberation fails when the new regime hardens into a dominating bureaucracy — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 138; Bureaucratic rule requires immunity from democratic control — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 552
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Liberation fails when the new regime hardens into a dominating bureaucracy — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 138; Bureaucratic rule requires immunity from democratic control — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 552

Broader Connections

• Liberation fails when the new regime hardens into a dominating bureaucracy #complicates (0.78) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 138