Bureaucrats, Bureaucratism & Hacks

"There is nothing revolutionary about the bureaucrats. They fear the masses and distrust them and are always swept aside during periods of upsurge. Only when the masses quiet down do the bureaucrats have their day—the gray people of the ebb tide. You see this manifested in all workers’ organizations in all mutations of the class struggle, from strikes to revolutions, and from trade unions to the organs of state power.

James P. Cannon (1951)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1951/peace.htm

Added 9/24/09; The Champion from Far Away  by James P. Cannon. First printed in Labor Action, January 16, 1937.

Added 9/24/09; An Open Letter to Members of the Socialist Labour League and Other Marxists by Peter Fryer, November 11 1959.

Added 8/12/10; The Wohlforthite Ultimatum Exchange between the Communist Working Collective and the Workers League's Tim Wohlforth in 1971. Reprinted in Marxist Bulletin #10 "From Maoism to Trotskyism: Documents on the development of the Communist Working Collective of Los Angeles".

Added 9/24/09; SWP Uses Watergate Methods Against Trotskyists First printed in Workers Vanguard #29, 28 September 1973]   

Added 8/12/10; ‘I Liked Gerry Healy...: ’The Robertson School of Party Building First printed in 1917 No.1 Winter 1986. 

Added 9/24/09 On the Spartacist Tendency Excerpt from a 6/16/88 letter from Bill Logan on behalf of the Permanent Revolution Group (New Zealand) to the Communist Left (New Zealand).

Also

Added 8/12/10; Rank & File Insurrection (Selected Quotes)

Added 8/12/10; On Choosing to Not to be a Hack First printed in Solidarity, Vol. 6, No. 2, 13 November 1969.