Liberation fails when the new regime hardens into a dominating bureaucracy

Evidence

However, the moment the new regime hardens into a dominating “bureaucracy” the humanist dimension of the struggle is lost and it is no longer possible to speak of liberation. Hence our insistence that the authentic solution of the oppressor-oppressed contradiction does not lie in a mere reversal of position, in moving from one pole to the other. Nor does it lie in the replacement of the former oppressors with new ones who continue to subjugate the oppressed—all in the name of their liberation. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 138

Categorization

• XREF: This is Freud and Freire naming exactly the failure mode the reader fears in the method: the facilitator as new bureaucrat-vanguard. — connects to: Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 119; Politics loses its freedom once Capital becomes a new transcendent master. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 29