Every society must solve the problem of bureaucratic independence

Evidence

Bureaucracy become necessity: the question must be raised of forming an honest and impartial bureaucracy, which does not abuse its function to make itself independent of the control of the representative system. It can be said that every form of society has its approach or solution to the problem of bureaucracy, these must inevitably vary. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2204

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly prefigures the module’s ‘bureaucratic rationality enabling mass exclusion’ theme — bureaucratic autonomy from representative control is the recurring structural problem. — connects to: Every society develops its own solution to the problem of bureaucratic control.; Bureaucratic independence from democratic control is a universal problem requiring varied solutions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2204; Bureaucratic rule requires immunity from democratic control — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 552
  • SEED: Angle: bureaucracy as the unexamined hinge between democratic form and administrative coercion.

Broader Connections