English Translation

261.) in front of the citizen, as if he were the state itself, so to speak, or to live in this role. The principle of "L'état c'est moi" is applied to the innumerable army of beants much more daily than to the circles of responsible politicians, ministers, military, etc. The tendency to the dictatorial spirit is much more perpetrating the birocracy and bureaucrats than any other class of public citizens. This is the remnant of feudal obscurity. The tendency to conservativism, indeed reactionary, is bound up with this, so that the burocracy in democracy tends to be one of the main obstacles to faster development by opposing all changes, new conditions and new ideas that they disrupt from their traditions their intrusive gilts, their routine - the natural and most widespread characteristics of every bureaucracy. A large part of the bureaucracy in our country and elsewhere was also the typical representative of the reactive petty bourgeoisie. The bureaucracy thinks everywhere and is reluctant, it has no spirit of initiative, it does not like to be disturbed by its daily order, which for them is a guarantee of order in office, but above all a certain kind of convenience and easier exercise of work. The post-war democracy, too, will therefore have great difficulties with the bureaucracy. It will be an evil struggle. I do not doubt that the new democracy will be forced to change its current and adopted civil servants' statute very much.