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Marxism and Bureaucracy

出版	Australian National University, 1979
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W-4WjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis is concerned with the career of a concept within a tradition of thought which combines social and political theory and revolutionary ideology. The concept is 'bureaucracy' ; the tradition is revolutionary Marxism. The thesis attempts to explore the role and importance of the concept in the writings of several writers who stand at central and strategic points in the development of Marxist ref lect ion on bureaucracy, and to discuss the adequacy and utility of these writers' analyses of what they take 'bureaucracy' to be. Marxists were not the only thinkers, nor were they the first, to discuss the role of bureaucracy in comtemporary and future societies. The thesis has therefore considered the thoughts of a number of pre- and non-Marxists. In particular, the writings of two thinkers who gave special attention to the social and political consequences of administrative imperatives - Henri Saint-Simon and Max Weber - have proved particularly illuminating. Saint-Simon bequeathed to, or at least shared with Marxists, many important ideas and predictions which relate to our theme. Weber was both profoundly influenced by Marxist social theory, and, with regard to bureaucracy, profoundly critical of revolutionary Marxism. In this century the theories and prophecies of both writers, as of Marxists themselves, have been put to test. The ideas discussed here have been concerned with, and greatly affected and at times challenged by, economic, social and political developments in the past two centuries, and in particular by the course and fate of the first successful Marxist-led revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917. The thesis has sought to take these developments, and their practical and theoretical consequences, into account.