socialism = inefficient bureaucracy, but if you want to apply for tax credits, grants, scholarships, welfare and other means-tested programs you have to submit form after form which is processed by a vast bureaucracy whose sole purpose is to humiliate and discipline the workforce

as with so many topics, david graeber has written brilliantly on this in the essay "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" ( https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit) and his book "The Utopia of Rules" ( https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules.pdf). an excerpt from the essay:

some excerpts from the intro to graeber's "The Utopia of Rules" ( https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules.pdf). he's right, the left needs a critique of bureaucracy

also glad to see that later on in that intro graeber rightly points out that the market and the state are not distinct entities, with the former being free from Sin as claimed by neoliberals. see also this thread ( https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1376906334260576258) for more texts on this common myth