PAP 2300 Chapter Notes -Class Conflict, Rationality, Twat

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Frank Ohemeng

Document Summary

Role of bureaucracy in capitalist society: maintain the class distinctions and domination that sustained the rule of the business class, mask domination by presenting itself as general interest and maintained by autonomy *pg. 63: the state is relatively autonomous from capitalist class but serves its long term interests. Using autonomy (freedom of action) from the ruling business class to mask domination. Wanted communism, class exploitation ends, no need for institutions that sustained it: criticisms. Neo-marxists claim that any state policy that assists capital is evidence of the state serving the capitalist class and any that serve working class serves the interests of the capital by legitimizing the capitalist system. Argue that bureaucracy is a tool of capitalist class but that it"s become too powerful: neo-marxixsts, consider that modern capitalists has 2 functions: To foster capital accumulation: state passes policies that make it possible for capitalist enterprises to make profits (ex. low corporate tax rates, subsidies, grants)