praxeologist on Nostr: The core of Mises's Bureaucracy is this: the more power state bureaucracies hold, the ...

The core of Mises's Bureaucracy is this: the more power state bureaucracies hold, the less democratic the system becomes. Why? Because political bodies (like Congress) delegate decisions to external commissions. These commissions aren't elected by the people but by other bureaucrats, making them unaccountable to public welfare. This fosters irresponsibility and shifts toward totalitarianism—just as it did in Weimar Germany before Hitler’s rise.

Published in 1944 amid widespread socialist sentiment, Mises added a 1962 intro noting socialism’s decline in favor of interventionism. U.S. bureaucracy had grown but remained less pervasive than elsewhere, preserving liberalism. He argued trends change and America’s choices would influence the world—a prediction proven true in later decades.

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