Weber and Bureaucracy

[David Simpson]

> David Morris wrote:
>
> This seems to be what divides [Weber's] model from that of T.Jefferson, who did
> not champion Bureaucracy, but democracy (tempered though into "republic") and the
> education of the masses.
>

Weber hardly "championed" bureaucracy. He merely described its motivation,
evolution, and operation. He pointed out that, like all industrial-age Western
techniques, it is ruthlessly rational and efficient, hence certain to replace or
obliterate whatever tribal, primitive, unscientific, and spontaneous (i.e.,
non-automatic) forms of social and political organization preceded it.
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