Max Weber Bureaucracy

Self-criticism in CCM and the Chinese experience

One feature has for one thing distinguished Tanzania’s ruling party from most of its counterparts in Africa, and placed it on a sort of comparison with some traditional political parties of a revolutionary mould. The reason is that the party did not fall into the cynicism of maintaining despotic rule, and in what it was doing as a government, it persistently sought to pursue principles, not just maintenance of a regime as its own end.

While these principles have had their share of difficulties in terms of how they grasp the world, economic framework the party seeks to change to prosperity, they were principles.

Political parties pass through two stages – according to German sociologist Max Weber at the turn of the 19th century – namely the stage of charisma and then bureaucracy. The degree to which a political party is attached to principle at the onset determines how far it falls into negative bureaucracy of a despotic sort, as when it is actually so animated, it withstands temptations of despotism owing to its roots with the population, and psychologically, seeking a renewal of probity as its anchor, its lifeline. When these sources are thin, it takes little – once in power – for a party to descend into cynicism.

Extrapolating Weber, the stage of charisma has itself a periodic lifeline, of an idealistic animation at the start, and relatively realistic or at times crude self-assessment at some stage of its life, when it is struggling to retain its charisma. When the effort fails, and it has no more sources of appeal to the population to maintain loyalty to the party on the basis of this self-assessment, then it falls into cynicism, expressed as tyranny, despotism. Each of the traditional revolutionary parties passed through these two stages within its largely charismatic period, that is, of winning power and building a revolutionary state.

Parties of the modern (post-feudal) period were of two kinds, the liberal-conservative and the progressive-revolutionary, differing on how far a party wished to maintain the sort of property relations existing, or sought an overhaul in favour of the laboring classes. It is also on this basis that African political parties came up, depending on orientation of their founders or historical leaders – and a specific pattern emerges.

Parties led by leaders who did their studies in Europe in the post-WWI tended to be liberal-conservative, for instance Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, poet Leopold Sedar Senghor in Senegal and his associate Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Ivory Coast, Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya, etc.

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During 1980's, Max Weber unlike that the abounding European organizations have been administered on the basis of "personal" type of family, and employees were loyal to alone admiral rather than to the organization. He believed that organizations should be managed impersonally and that the formal structure of organization in which area specific rules were followed, was important. In added words, he didn’t anticipate that authority should be based on a person’s personality. He anticipation ascendancy should be article that was allotment of a person’s job and anesthetized from alone to alone as one being larboard and addition took over. This non personal, cold anatomy of alignment was alleged a bureaucracy.

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