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Abstract
The essence of bureaucracy lies in sacrificing the gist of a matter to form; in disregarding the interests of the state, society, and citizens for the sake of the personal interests of officials or narrow sectoral interests; and in a callous attitude toward human beings. Bureaucratism in its exploitative form is the system and style of state government exercised through an official apparatus with no ties to the people. Literally, the term means "the rule of the office" (from the French word bureau, which means office, and the Greek word kratos, which means power or rule). Its content also reflects essential social attributes of bureaucratism: the isolation of the apparatus from the citizens and from representative institutions, and its encapsulation in a closed caste governing mainly through issuing prescriptions on paper.