Karl Marx Theory Of Bureaucracy

Max Weber
Bureaucracy Theory- The very word “bureaucracy” was first coined by Vincent de Gourney, a French economist in 1745. Bureaucracy as term came of the consequence in France where it is because of the illness of bureau mania. The word Bureaucracy in French is called “desk”. Going forward the term bureaucracy in the words of F.M Marx said that it was first used by the French minister of Commerce in the eighteenth century to refer to the government in operation, and it later spread to Germany in the nineteenth century as ‘Burokrati’ then gradually it also spread to England and now it has found its way in the present day Bureaucratic. But the classical term was mainly written by Karl Marx, Max Weber,

And Marx has clearly mentioned that bureaucracy as a term is like the state itself, whereby it is used as an instrument by which the dominant class exercises its domination over other social classes. According to this logic, we can say that the interests of bureaucracy are closely linked to those of the dominant class and the state. And it was during the eighteenth century and the rise of industrial society that the concept of organisation employing large number of people was popularised and it give rise to the form of bureaucrats. Bureaucrats as a concept came when large organisation was in need of someone who can control the subordinates, where all the decisions are taken at the higher level. In this system of organisation there are less chances of internal democracy due to elite dominating the organisation. Gaetano Mosca in his book The Ruling Class classified the political systems into

And through this he meant to say that political structure in a given environment runs on the bureaucratic. The interesting fact about bureaucracy is that Marx Weber was the pioneering one who holds a unique position in the study of administrative who tries to understand and explain the deeper meaning and concept of the word bureaucracy. In fact we need to give credit to Max Weber since he was the first one to write on scientific treatment of bureaucracy. As it has been observed by S.R Maheswari, “The credit for systematic formulation of the bureaucratic theory goes to Max Weber, for, he founded the modern sociological study of bureaucracy, freed the term from pejorative connotations, and emphasised the indispensability of bureaucracy for the rational attainment of the goals of an organisation”. As analysed by Mohit Bhattacharya, “In Weberian concept of bureaucracy, bureaucracy is not a term that needs to be confused or link with civil service rather it is of the sociological concept of rationalisation of collective activities”. But we must be cautious that to understand bureaucracy we should first go through the typology of authority systems. So to understand clearly and descriptively we must look deeper into what Weberian “Theory of Authority” of Bureaucracy was