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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

Burnham, James. The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World. New York: The John Day Company, 1941. {Also see: James Burnham, "The Coming Rulers" Fortune Magazine Nov. 1941} The outline proposed in Managerial revolution mirrors that of Pollock, Frederick. "Is National Socialism a new order?." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 9.3 (1941): 440-455. "...we are now in a period of social transition in the sense which has been explained, a period characterized, that is, by an unusually rapid rate of change of the most important economic, social, political, and cultural institutions of society." "It might be properly pointed out that at any time the GPU or the Gestapo may oust a manager from his position and send him to execution or a concentration camp. But relatively speaking, such cases, though conspicuous, do not happen so very frequently." "Heads of colleges and preachers and statesmen and librarians of Congress rebuke the American youth for being cynics, for its unwillingness to sacrific, for its indifference. But no one can scold the masses into enthusiasm. The youth will not fight willingly because it does not believev in what is being asked to fight for, that is, in th

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