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"[T[he fear you raise reverts back to the cold war tendency to confuse governance and economy... is pure cold war propaganda nonsense."
I don't mean to say that there is no bureaucracy in a business or in a democracy, I recognize that there is.  I do think that bureaucracy tends to increase as societies become more socialized; how else to keep track of the flow of property (real or virtual).  In that, individual freedom must be curtailed no less than in a police state (though, one hopes, with less severe consequences than a gulag).  Dickens reductio ad absurdam from over 150 years ago, in Bleak House's Circumlocution Department, I think, is evidence of this tendency.