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I only really covered Webber in my Masters in one course.
The problem I guess I had with him was he was too pessemistic, and in the end he see's us all trapped in this iron cage of bureaucracy, and it isnt exactly certain if he thinks is a bad thing.
Webber and Michels both saw a world which would always be ruled by the cold unfeeling hand of bureaucracy, whether it was capitalist or socialist or anything else - I think both of their theories are almost Luddite - insofar as they see that world as the only one possible under new technology, the only possible escape would be to go back to agricultural feudalism, whereas while people where unfree almost totally in the respect of their formal rights, their masters had very little real power over there every day lives (the difference between absolute power and infrastructural power - whereas now the red Queen cannot yell "Off with his head" and be obeyed, the state has power over far more apsects of our life)
In the end, I find Marx the most convincing political theorist, because I share his hope in the basic goodness of humankind, and I cannot deny what he saw, the basic badness of all existing societies (which was nothing new, something he learned from Hobbes really)
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The Gospel of Thomas
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