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Good quote: On coronavirus and bureaucracy
  • Since the bureaucracy is in its essence 'the state as formalism', it is so in its goal. Thus, the real goal of the state appears to the bureaucracy as an anti-state goal ... The bureaucracy considers itself the ultimate goal of the state. Since the bureaucracy makes its "formal" goals its content, it is everywhere in conflict with the "real" goals. It is therefore compelled to pass off the formal as content, and the content as something formal. State tasks turn into clerical tasks, or clerical tasks into state tasks.

    K. Marx

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  • Very good statement,

    so bureaucracy it’s a double sharped knife . It’s used for making a good cut, but if not used wise begins the crumbling, taking apart anything if needed.