Word: bureaucratical
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...hammer-and-sickle, blue and red Viet Cong, and red, white and blue Cuban. French "Red Guards" strung up posters proclaiming such sentiments as "It's forbidden to forbid" and "Humanity will not be happy until the last capitalist is hanged with the entrails of the last bureaucrat." The stone bust of Auguste Comte, the 19th century French philosopher-reformer who coined the term sociology, was draped with a red bandanna; a red flag adorned the statue of Louis Pasteur. Inside, in jampacked auditoriums, thousands applauded allright debates that ranged over every conceivable topic, from the "anesthesia of affluence...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...
...conflict between these different mentalities is universal, but varies in its virulence from society to society. In the U.S., for example, the Bureaucrat does not have much power over the individual's personal or artistic life. Crises erupt, as over the Vietnam War or at Columbia, when the Bureaucratic power suddenly stands revealed as unreasonably wide-ranging...
...Communist Europe, however, the Bureaucrat has unbounded power over both the material and spiritual resources of society. Such total control is inherent in a Communist state--once you begin to centralize authority it becomes very difficult to set limits on it. Thus, in the European Communist countries, artistic freedom was for a long time very tightly restricted. And it is precisely because this kind of control over personal life represents the furthest, and least defensible, encroachment of Bureaucratic power that the Intelluectuals of the Communist countries have found it possible to struggle for Political Liberty under the banner of Cultural...
Washington was criticized later for this performance, but it is clearly in character for him. He is not a politician but a bureaucrat and technician. He was not elected to office but appointed. As a result he has not been forced to keep in touch with the people of the black ghetto, and he has not kept in touch with them. They have never fully trusted him, and after the King Weekend, they will trust him even less...