Raise of the machine........

Bakunin has sometimes been called 

the first theorist of the "new class", meaning 

that a 'class' of intellectuals and bureaucrats 

running the state in the name of the people or 

the proletariat – 

but in reality in their own interests alone. 

Bakunin argued that the "State has always been 

the patrimony of  some privileged class: 

a priestly class, an aristocratic class, a bourgeois class. 

And finally, when all the other classes have 

exhausted themselves, ....

the State then becomes the patrimony of 

the bureaucratic class and then falls—or

if you will, rises—to the position of a machine.