Administration Theory as Repressive Political Theory: The Communist Experience

The central thesis to be argued in this paper is that administrative theory as developed by Western social scientists is inherently repressive and that its utilization in Communist states as a set of techniques for ordering human relationships has had a subversive effect on the Communist goal of creating a more humanized society. We do not necessarily hold the view that in the absence of these particular techniques Communist states would be free from repression, but rather that these techniques themselves entail certain patterns of repression which are original to the societies in which those techniques were first developed and practiced.