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→‎Beliefs: Orwell took large parts of the book Managerial Revolution and re-packaged them into "1984".
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* [[New Deal]]ism
 
* [[Technocracy]]
 
* [[Technocracy]]
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The book was (and still is) unusual for its focus on the underside of the [[Administrative State]], or managerial state, as Burnham makes the case that "''Under the centralized economic structure of managerial society, regulation (planning) is a matter of course''".<ref name=managerial>(p. 132)</ref>  Commonly, writers separate the various ideologies apart based on the nature of their master plans without examining their core use of [[Central planning]].
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The book was (and still is) unusual for its focus on the underside of the [[Administrative State]], or managerial state, as Burnham makes the case that "''Under the centralized economic structure of managerial society, regulation (planning) is a matter of course''".<ref name=managerial>(p. 132)</ref>  Commonly, writers separate the various ideologies apart based on the nature of their master plans without examining their core use of [[Central planning]]. George Orwell's book [[1984]] is based in large part on ''Managerial Revolution'' and contains many of the same themes.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21337504 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia], "Orwell saw the beginnings of a Burnham-style carve-up of the globe into superpowers and told friends that this was what initially set him going on the novel."</ref>
    
===''Suicide of the West''===
 
===''Suicide of the West''===
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