Organizational discontinuity and improvisation outweigh the risk of bureaucratization

Evidence

There is a danger of becoming “bureaucratised”, it is true; but every organic continuity presents this danger, which must be watched. The danger of discontinuity, of improvisation, is still greater. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 802

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A practical judgment favoring continuity disciplines over bureaucratic rigidity in organized movements.
• XREF: connects to: Open communications plus weakened authority favor improvisational millenarian entrepreneurs — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 151; Organizational failures produce cumulative learning through postmortem analysis.; Movements differ from parties by admiring bureaucracy as an organizational model — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 627 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Open communications plus weakened authority favor improvisational millenarian entrepreneurs — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 151; Organizational failures produce cumulative learning through postmortem analysis.; Movements differ from parties by admiring bureaucracy as an organizational model — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 627 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Bureaucratic interpretations become autonomous and resistant to change in late capitalism #complicates (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 101
• Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure #complicates (0.73)