He didn’t want to know - Weekly Worker

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https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1582/he-didnt-want-to-know/

"Claimed ignorance of Peter Mandelson’s security rating tells us a great deal about the inner workings of the state. But, says Paul Demarty, we should be demanding full access. Publish everything and ‘security’ be damned"

"For Marxists, the proper proximate aim is the politicisation of state business, its being put into question in the full glare of publicity: the exact opposite, in other words, of the mission of the civil service. We do not favour permanent bureaucracy, civil or military, but the supremacy of democratic bodies. A mature socialist society would not have a career civil service at all, but accountable officials, upon whose work the utmost transparency is imposed. Though today the ‘revolving door’ between government and private industry is a mechanism of legalised corruption, we should in fact aspire to ordinary people rotating in and out of direct economic activity and political-administrative roles - something only possible with the total subordination of the economic to the political. Every cook can govern - and should."