By James Burnham
Burnham's Managerial Revolution used to be released in 1940, nearly two decades ahead of J.K. Galbraith's extra recognized the hot commercial country (1958), yet comprises lots of the vital principles about the upward push of a managerial category with loyalties extra to its personal type than to the proprietors of the firm (capital, shareholders), which later made Galbraith well-known. except the truth that Burnham (once a leftist philosophy professor who broke with the left over Stalin's crimes) used to be a conservative, there's no rational the explanation why this isn't the recognized publication and Galbraith an epigonal footnote.
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This is, or ought to be, a humiliating experience for human beings: if justice is beyond us, we would like at least to claim knowledge. Who Are The Managers?
Presumably, at least where it was not a matter of direct compulsion, most of those who fought believed that they did so for ends which were beneficial to themselves; but, at least so far as economic and social benefit went, this turned out, for the nonbourgeois bulk of the fighters, either not to be the case at all or at least far secondary to the benefit resulting to the capitalists. None of these ideologies spoke openly in the name of the bourgeoisie; none of them said that the best kind of society and politics and morality and religion and universe was one in which the capitalists were the ruling class; they spoke, as all important ideologies do, in the name of "truth" and for the ostensible welfare of all mankind.
This made socialism easy, because the workers would have almost no one except a handful of financecapitalists to oppose their course. As is well known, this development did not take place as predicted by Marx. Small independent proprietors remain in many lines of endeavor; and the last seventyfive years have seen the growth of the socalled "new middle class," the salaried executives and engineers and managers and accountants and bureaucrats and the rest, who do not fit without distortion into either the "capitalist" or "worker" category.