Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic
pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of
Communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new
test the classical theories concerning the relationship between
bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to
this renewal theory, exploring the social and historical roots of
bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers' mass
organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary
accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the
ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the Communist
bloc. He measures the actual performance of Western and Eastern
societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von
Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai
Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those
theories - Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic - which claim
that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern
societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific
dynamics of Communist and post-communist society.
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