The third way’s real content is bureaucracy, not ideology
Evidence
One thing that occurred to me last week, prompted by the contrast between Marker’s Then and our Now, was that the third way is not entirely a phantasm, an ideological dupe. There is in fact a reality to the third way, and it is the reality of bureaucracy. That is what is left once politics has become administration. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 488
Categorization
- APHORISMS: The compression ‘what is left once politics has become administration’ reads as a durable diagnostic aphorism about late-stage governance.
- XREF: connects to: Inefficient parliamentarianism does not justify praising bureaucracy; Rejecting parliamentarianism need not entail rehabilitating bureaucracy — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 948; Organizational rupture with old socialism did not require ideological rupture too — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 95 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Inefficient parliamentarianism does not justify praising bureaucracy
#corroborates(0.85) - Rejecting parliamentarianism need not entail rehabilitating bureaucracy
#corroborates(0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 948 - Organizational rupture with old socialism did not require ideological rupture too
#corroborates(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 95 - Ordoliberalism defined itself as a third way between capitalism and socialism
#responds-to(0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 546