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Karl Marx on Bureaucracy

Sun, 2005-02-13 07:50 — Nick Lewis
"The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived." - Karl Marx

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Tue, 2006-09-26 06:02 — Mad Marxist (not verified)

That happens to be one of my

That happens to be one of my favorite, but I have grown to like this one better... “Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible” Javier Pascual Salcedo quotes I think Marx would have smiled, if the man was capable... Afterall he did say "Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

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