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20938 | Liberalism's weakness is its powerful rigid bureaucracy [Gramsci] |
Full Idea: Liberalism's weakness is the bureacracy - the crystallisation of the leading personnel - which exercises power, and at a certain point it becomes a caste. | |
From: Antonio Gramsci (Selections from Prison Notebooks [1971], 2 'Hegemony') | |
A reaction: This sounds more like what is called 'the Establishment' in Britain, which is the hidden controllers of power, rather than the administrators (whose role is only despised by right-wingers). |