ABSTRACT
It is completely obvious that the more difficult it is for the ruling centres to carry through their decisions by the methods of party democracy, the less the vanguard of the working class sees their policy as its own. The divergence between the direction of economic policy and the direction of the feelings and thoughts of the proletarian vanguard inevitably strengthens the need for repression and gives all policy an administrative-bureaucratic character. Any other explanation of the growth of bureaucratism is secondary and does not encompass the essence of the question.
