Assertion: bureaucracy's function | /r/HasProperty | indispensable
Facets:
value: for the life of society
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: obviously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The difficulty in sifting appearance from reality consists in this: the bureaucracy performs certain functions which are obviously necessary and indispensable for the life of society; yet it also performs functions which might theoretically be described as superfluous.