Cited from C.W. Mills’ White Collar in his analysis of corporate elites in the United States:
"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rationality was identified with freedom. The ideas of Freud about the individual, and of Marx about society, were strengthened by the assumption of the coincidence of freedom and rationality. Now rationality seems to have taken on a new form, to have its seat not in individual men, but in social institutions which by their bureaucratic planning and mathematical foresight usurp both freedom and rationality from the little individual men caught in them. For the bureaucracy, Marx wrote in 1842, the world is an object to manipulated".
According to Mills, bureaucracies not only rest upon classes, they organize the power struggle of classes. Bureaucracies, public OR private, sport OR city, need to be carefully evaluated.
What is their organizational structure?
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