Mises presents us with a cold mechanical analysis, whilst Burnham applies the theory to the world. Every expansion of government interference in markets can be seen as a further expansion of the bureaucratic administrative class preying on capitalist production. The managerial revolution that Burnham describes is started by governments, and often with the aid of businessmen trying to get a leg up on one another, and grows quickly.

DEI initiatives, for one, are another means by which the managerial class justifies itself and expands further. Resources are dragged away from what is profitable, valuable, and popular and into whatever concocted ideology is made that gives them more power. There may be genuine believers in the ideology that has been created, but that is secondary to the power grab that was sought after by creating it.

Thus, the fusion of state and economy—as the state slowly saps away more and more resources from the productive economy and funnels it further to self-motivated bureaucrats. Nothing quite sufficiently describes much of our modern dilemma as the wed narratives of Burnham and Mises. Failures of efficiency, collecting of incompetent ideologues in businesses, expanding bureaucracy, all of it is entwined in self-interested spiraling interventionism.

Burnham may have been an architect for the Cold War, but The Managerial Revolution is worth a read. Much of his analysis is corroborated by his contemporary: our very own, Ludwig von Mises, who only strengthens the narrative that Burnham describes. In order to reverse this revolution, which Burnham perhaps did not foresee, one must have a proper vision of the enemy. That enemy is the administrative-bureaucratic managerial class. It must be overthrown to restore markets, and efficiency, to America.