The psychological consequences of bureaucratization

It's evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.They are in fact "lost generation" because they lack the most precious right of every rising generation, the right to contribute something new to the old inventory of civilization.

In the communist manifesto the instances used for the exemplification of class struggles are taken from the conflict between castes. Then Marx adds that the modern bourgeois society has established new classes. But he never said what a class is and what he had in mind in speaking of classes and class antagonisms and in coordinating classes to castes. Neither Marx nor any one of the host of Marxian writers could tell us what a social class is, much less whether such social classes really play in the social structure the role assigned to them in the doctrine.

The characteristic feature of a caste is its rigidity. The social classes, as Marx exemplified them in calling the capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the wage earners distinct classes, are characterized by their flexibility.

Though a socialist country may be classless, but there will be other differences in social functions which we can call classes with surely no less justification than that of Marx.

The only thing that counts is the fact that under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune. Work well done and services well rendered are the only means to succeed. Under socialism, the beginner must please those already settled. The rising generation is at the mercy of the aged. Mankind is doomed when the youths are deprived of the opportunity to remodel society according to their own fashion. 


Plato's ideal and perfect state is to be ruled by unselfish philosopher. The characteristic mark of Plato's philosophy: it doesn't pay any attention to the evolution of social and economic conditions and to the changes in human ideas concerning ends and means. Any deviation of the actual conditions from the ideal model cannot be anything else than corruption and degradation.