bureaucracy
Bureaucrats - Simon Leys
Despite the claims of the Maoist ruling elite of a complete break with feudal ways, Leys illustrates that the finely graded hierarchies of Maoist officialdom inherited and preserved the earlier bureaucratic structures of privilege.
Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans; he has written extensively on the history, culture and politics of China.
From; Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys; Penguin Books, London, 1978.
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Bureaucrats
(Simon Leys)
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management - Castoriadis
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management
Cornelius Castoriadis
How does one characterize such a regime from a Marxist point of veiw? Sociologically speaking it was clear that it should be defined in the same way as the Russian regime. And it is here that the weakness and the absurdity of the trotskyist conception became evident.
