Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 472

In a healthy society, the state is the organ of the ruling class; in a hunchbacked society, the state is the instrument of a bureaucratic cl...

The sciences tend to become bureaucratic, just like everything else. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 381

With the exception of the reactionary, today we only meet candidates for [positions as] administrators of modern society. Escolios a un Text...

No one now is ignorant of the fact that “transforming the world” means bureaucratizing man. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 31...

While the democratic voter disposes of another man’s fate, his has already been disposed of by a bureaucrat. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: ...

The despotic decisions of the modern state are, in the end, made by an anonymous, subordinate, pusillanimous bureaucrat, who is probably als...

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutiona...

The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends. Escolios...

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out. Combining in...

A bureaucratic destiny awaits revolutionaries, like the sea awaits rivers. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 214

Bureaucracy is one of democracy’s means that turn into one of its ends. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 194

Bureaucracy is not frightening because it paralyzes, but because it functions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 181

Bureaucracies do not succeed revolutions by coincidence. Revolutions are the bloody births of bureaucracies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

The revolutionary attitude of modern youth is unequivocal proof of their aptitude for a career in administration. Revolutions are perfect i...