tural tradition and conservatism as an aesthetic and political issue. By this he means that postmodernism operates in a field of tension between tradition and innovation. Marx's opposition of one class against another is one of the clear-cut dichotomies that has broken down, and yet the underlying conception of class remains in force in some way. Weber's bureaucracies are clearly still an important force in society, having indeed become so entrenched and so much a part of the background that we may not see their operation as clearly as we could when they were developing in his time. We seem to be fragmenting political power even further at the present time, and we need to understand Weber's conceptions even more as we toy with the overt power structure through term limits, political restructuring, and third-party politics while leaving an entrenched bureaucracy in place so that we are never certain
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