Part of what it meant to be anti-elitist in the 1970s was to say that people like Robert Moses and J. Edgar Hoover who had massive power as unelected bureaucrats that were partly kept in power by blackmailing politicians shouldn’t exist.
We might have to look more at how technocratic power actually is wielded.
Part of what it meant to be anti-elitist in the 1970s was to say that people like Robert Moses and J. Edgar Hoover who had massive power as unelected bureaucrats that were partly kept in power by blackmailing politicians shouldn’t exist.
We might have to look more at how technocratic power actually is wielded.
Oh yeah, Moses is a good example (from everything I’ve heard about him, at least)