Fight against bureaucracy

The sad truth is that here and there,bureaucracy, the habit of authoritarianism, bullying and repression of the masses still exists. These are major obstacles in building a rule-of-law State, of the People, by the People, for the People. Bureaucracy is creating gaps, damaging the flesh-and-blood relationship between the Party and the People - a "vital" relationship, which our Party has worked hard to establish, build and affirmed over the past 90 years.

Uncle Ho called bureaucracy "paperwork disease, formalism, impractical, distant from the masses, not following the masses' line, not following the policies of the Government and the Unions".

According to Ho Chi Minh, officials suffering from bureaucracy also have the following symptoms: "In terms of work, they focus on form without considering all aspects, without going deeply into the problem. They only know how to hold meetings, write instructions, and read reports on paper, but do not check thoroughly."

Bureaucracy is also used to refer to cadres, party members, and civil servants who have an attitude and behavior of command, instead of explaining and propagating. In work, they do not stick to reality, do not monitor and educate cadres. From there, they work ineffectively, and make wrong policies. Bureaucracy has very serious consequences, affecting both the apparatus and the people.

Illustration photo. Source: Internet.

Bureaucracy is also the degeneration of power of public agencies. This degeneration is mainly manifested externally in the form of paperwork, cumbersome apparatus, and many intermediate levels; internally, it is the mentality of fame-seeking, pursuit of achievement, pursuit of position and power, and taking advantage of position and power, taking advantage of loopholes in the management mechanism to seek personal interests, leading to abuse of power and abuse of power.

Bureaucracy is characterized mainly by “desk dominance”, “general” work, administrative work, business work, only paying attention to form, not paying attention to the nature and content of the work, using administrative command methods instead of scientific working methods, not being close to the masses, being far from the grassroots, far from the reality of life, not attaching importance to inspection and supervision. Such a way of working often does not care about the effectiveness of the work. In the era of technology 4.0, besides the outstanding advantages of being fast, economical,... the way of working, grasping the situation through reports, via email, via phone, only listening to one-sided information from the leaders,... makes bureaucracy and paperwork have more opportunities to “expand”.

It is known that, according to statistics, in 10 years (1960-1969), Uncle Ho had 700 business trips to the grassroots. Many times, Uncle Ho visited without prior notice; or he went to the back gate, checked each meal in the kitchen, asked the workers, security guards, waiters,... very specific details.

Recently, the Prime Minister inspected the epidemic prevention situation in the southern provinces, and together with the people, called the "hotline" phone number several times without getting through... If not seeing it with his own eyes, but through the report, he must have heard that it is on duty 24/7?

In fact, once you get to the facility, hearing information from multiple sources and from multiple people will give you different results than reading a report or just listening to the head of the agency or unit report. So the way to exploit and process information must also have methods and experience to be accurate.

Nowadays, people say that if we want policies and resolutions to come into effect soon, all policies and resolutions must originate from real life. That means if all policies and resolutions originate from practical needs and demands of life and “have the breath of life”, then those policies and resolutions will be approved, accepted, responded to and implemented quickly and effectively by the people.

If the cadres and bureaucracy are bureaucratic, how can they grasp the needs of life and know how to properly and accurately impact the needs of life?

In the activities of cadres in our political system, there are quite clear regulations on information regimes and grassroots regimes. It is necessary to spend appropriate time on grassroots activities. Go to listen to what the people say. Go to tell the people to understand. Go to make the people believe,...

Fighting bureaucracy is a constant and continuous requirement. Each party member and cadre must improve their political qualities, ethics, working style and working capacity. Practice a working style that is close to the people and closely follows reality. Strictly implement the working regime with the grassroots.

Regularly inspect and supervise the grassroots regime. The content of inspection and supervision focuses on the quality of situation grasp and the quality of advice of each organization, department, and each cadre and civil servant.

In daily life, it is necessary to strictly implement the regime of self-criticism and criticism against bureaucracy, administrative affairs, and "paperwork". When promulgating and implementing policies, it is necessary to grasp the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of citizens, in order to best serve the legitimate needs of people and businesses.