Power and Money

A Marxist Theory of Bureaucracy

By: Ernest Mandel

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Paperback | 17 June 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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 of 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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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Politics & Government Political Science & Theory Political Ideologies & Movements Far-Left Political Ideologies & Movements

Introduction	p. 1
Bureaucracy and Commodity Production	p. 11
Organization and the Usurpation of Power	p. 59
Substitutionism and Realpolitik: The Politics of Labour Bureaucracies	p. 103
Administration and Profit Realization: The Growth of Bourgeois Bureaucracies	p. 153
Self-administration, Abundance and the Withering Away of Bureaucracy	p. 195
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