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James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy ; his first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931).
Second Thoughts on James Burnham" ("James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution", when published as a pamphlet [1]) is an essay, first published in May 1946 in Polemic, by the English author George Orwell. The essay discusses works written by James Burnham, an American political theorist.
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World is a book written by James Burnham in 1941. It discusses the rise of managers and technocrats in modern industrial societies , arguing that they would replace the traditional capitalist class as the rulers of the economic system, through mechanisms such as economic planning .
Furthermore, Orwell identifies Burnham's critique of managerial state to unveil a sort of 'power-worship', stating that "it is not surprising that Burnham's world view should often be noticeably close to that of the American imperialists on the one side, or to that of the isolationists on the other. It is a 'tough' or 'realistic' world-view ...
James Burnham: 1905–1987 political philosopher and co-founder and editor of National Review [25] Hannah Arendt: 1906–1975 historian and philosopher [26] [27] [28] Willard Van Orman Quine: 1908–2000 philosopher and logician [29] [30] C. Vann Woodward: 1908–1999 historian [31] Willmoore Kendall: 1909–1967 political philosopher [32 ...
The committee's central or executive committee varied over time. James Burnham, who worked for the CIA, was a member until he left the group circa 1954. [5] Whittaker Chambers joined in late 1954 and was also a member of the executive committee.
Nevertheless, Orwell momentarily continued to uphold his optimistic vision of socialism; in "Second Thoughts on James Burnham", a review of the titular author's works on managerialism, he criticised Burnham for his conservatism and pessimism. [6] But by the end of World War II, Orwell's health was deteriorating and his wife Eileen Blair had died.
January 1935 to June 1936: Max Shachtman and John West (James Burnham) January 1938 to March 1939: board of James Burnham, Max Shachtman, and Maurice Spector; April 1939 to March 1940: board James Burnham and Max Shachtman; May 1940 to September 1941: Max Shachtman; Oct. 1941 to June 1943: Albert Gates (Albert Glotzer)