Could technocracy become a viable political movement?

Could technocracy become a viable political movement in America during and after the Great Depression? Say could the Technocracy Movement hold on in a world with a failed New Deal and if this happened could technocracy become viable in Western Europe, or even Japan or South Korea during the 1990's?
 
the problem, at least in USA, is that the Technocrats of the time was quite fond of Socialism as a step in the right direction.
 
What is the definition of technocracy, and where does it exist today? Could there be safe-guards against greed and corruption? Can it exist in a popular government, or does it require an autocratic regime? I've heard that the world banking system is a technocracy. How's that working out? Most utopias fail when you add people in the mix.
 
What is the definition of technocracy, and where does it exist today? Could there be safe-guards against greed and corruption? Can it exist in a popular government, or does it require an autocratic regime? I've heard that the world banking system is a technocracy. How's that working out? Most utopias fail when you add people in the mix.
Technocracy as the Technocracy Movement envisioned it does not exist anywhere today.

http://ia700801.us.archive.org/17/items/TheTechnocrat-September1937/TheTechnocrat-September1937.pdf
(page 3 for their manifesto)

The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundaries of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit. Technocracy’s blue-prints have been designed for this continent and for no other. It is an American Plan for the American continent. No imported political philosophies including Democracy, are in any way applicable
 
I think that, with the right sequence of PoDs, Technocracy, Inc. could reach power in America, though it would be a bit of a stretch. As I see it, the key components of such a TL would be: 1) have Howard Scott not blow his New York speech; 2) eliminate FDR; 3) have any attempt at coping with the Great Depression without FDR fail; 4) have the political and economic situation deteriorate enough that American elites become seriously worried about the possibility of left- or right-wing insurrection. At that point, Technocracy can position itself as a revolution that the elites think they can control. All in all, an unlikely sequence of events, but stranger things have happened in real life.

That said, a North American Technate will probably go down in history next to Stalin's Russia and Mao's China.
 
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