Lyotard holds that bureaucracy and technocracy displace classical social classes

Evidence

A stronger theoretical form of this proposition would then be derivable in the notion that social classes—of the classical type defined by Marxism—no longer function as such today, but are rather displaced by different, nonclass formations such as bureaucracy and technocracy (and this would seem to be the position of Lyotard, whose formative political work in theSocialismeouarbaric roup turned precisely around the analysis of bureaucracy in the Eastern countries). — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 51

Categorization

• XREF: Lyotard’s Socialisme ou Barbarie origins — the analysis of Soviet bureaucracy — are the biographical root Jameson cites to locate his anti-class position.