Suchergebnisse

Bureaucracy may mean many things. So may dictatorship. Until Sulla, the technique of dictatorial interludes provided the Roman republic with a convenient form of political catharsis to relieve the constitutional framework from the strain of military exigencies. Greek depotism was not the style of Caesar; Richelieu'sgouvernement personnel was not an imperialist versionof Cromwell's Commonwealth. Less compelling still are the parallels between Latin America's "strong man" regimes, Japan's "new structure"à laKonoye, and the one-party systems of National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia. It is the totalitarian formula alone to which we intend to address ourselves —dictatorship built upon the masses.