bureaucratism

Participation in physical labour may be required to combat 'bureaucratism'.

There is a trend towards bureaucratism in certain senses.

By 1921 Lenin was arguing that bureaucratism had dual roots.

Bureaucratism for Trotsky was more than just maladministration or red tape.

Post-revolutionary bureaucratism consisted of authoritarianism, unrealistic planning and red tape.

This was publicly proclaimed as a struggle against bureaucratism and embourgeoisement.

In order to protect itself from the conflicting, volatile and diffuse demands of political groups, it retreated into greater bureaucratism.

Without this we cannot speak of enforcing further democratization of the people's power, of fighting bureaucratism."

The avowed objective of this new method is to combat "bureaucratism" and "formalism" in the farm management system.

Spokesmen for practically all delegations said that bureaucratism still shows its teeth, so to speak, resists, and puts spokes in the wheels.

As to the conditions for award of markets, the rules which are beginning to emerge reflect, in their desiccated bureaucratism, a cynicism bordering on sincerity.

You can thus avoid growth of bureaucratism by the practice of soviets, that is to say, democracy - the most flexible form of government yet developed.

Bureaucratism and Factional Groups Trotsky's work at marxists.org.

"It is necessary to remove the rust of bureaucratism from the values and ideals of Socialism," Mr. Gorbachev said.

"He was the first to denounce state bureaucratism and deviations from Leninism," Mr. Volkov said of his grandfather.

In the early 1970's, he became active in the student movement against colonialism in Hong Kong and "bureaucratism" in China.

But bureaucratism cannot be 'sent packing' from a peasant country, cannot be 'swept from the face of the earth.'

It was a role he donned first at the preceding party congress, in February 1986, when he broke new ground in a candid attack on bureaucratism, corruption and inertia.

The faction developed a critique of the Stalinist states as well as the bureaucratism and political liquidationism of the old CPGB.

Among them was the sitting head of the State Sports Committee, Marat Gramov, a Brezhnev holdover, who was accused of incompetence, political insensitivity and bureaucratism.

His Responsible Secretaryship was criticised both by Lenin and Leon Trotsky, with Lenin noting his "shameful bureaucratism" and stupid behaviour.

Historians and publicists are searching for a name for Brezhnev's times, too: the era of groveling, of complete permissiveness and bureaucratism, of braking and stagnation, the gerontocracy.

At the height of the Cultural Revolution Mao criticized the way state bureaucracy was merely being replaced by party bureaucratism and emphasized the need for non-party, mass organizations to control the party.

"These were students who thought of themselves as the future leaders of the country and were upset by all the corruption and rigid bureaucratism they saw in their own party," Mr. Feighon said.

Trotsky, originally a champion of strong administration and hierarchical and centralized economic management, later related bureaucratism to the fallacy of trying to build a socialist political structure without the conduct of permanent revolution.