ТЕХНОКРАТИЯ
Technocracy
Anti-Marxist Distortions
Legitimizes bourgeois technocracy as scientific sociology, obscuring its monopoly-capitalist essence.
A modern sociological trend which came into being in the USA on the strength of the ideas of the economist Thorstein Veblen. It gained popularity in the thirties (H. Scott, G. Loeb, and others). Technocratic societies have sprung up in the USA and some European countries.
Adherents of Technocracy claim that anarchy and instability of contemporary capitalism are the result of the administration of state affairs by politicians. They hold that capitalism may be cured provided that economic life and state administration are taken over by technicians and businessmen. Their demagogic criticism of capitalist economy and politics camouflages their striving to justify the direct subordination of the state machinery to industrial monopolies. Closely associated with Technocracy is managerism, which is now widespread in the USA.
Технократия
(От греч. téchne - искусство, ремесло, мастерство и krátos - власть, господство) направление в буржуазной общественной мысли 20 в., согласно которому капиталистическое общество может якобы целиком регулироваться принципами научно-технической рациональности, носителями которых являются инженеры и учёные (технократы). См. Технократические теории.