Marketisation imposed on public services breeds bureaucracy geared to producing appearances

Evidence

Market Stalinism was my term for the kind of bureaucracy which was typical of Blairism, but which, as The Wire demonstrates, was by no means confined to Blairism, or to Britain. The neoliberal claim was that marketisation obviates the need for the state and for bureaucracy. But the result of imposing “marketisation” on public services is always a crazed proliferation of bureaucracy, via target setting, league tables, performance reviews, etc. Just as under Stalinism, everything becomes geared towards the production of appearance. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2211

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Fisher’s coinage ‘Market Stalinism’ as a category in itself.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal marketisation imposed its own new bureaucracy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1724; Market bureaucracy is more Kafkaesque than centralized totalitarian rule — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 133; Marketizing inherently unquantifiable services requires added bureaucracy — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 91 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Market bureaucracy is more Kafkaesque than centralized totalitarian rule #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 133