Technocracy and Empowerment

Techne means Know-How and Skill, and, therefore, Ability.  Thus, it is also equivalent to Power.  Accordingly, a fully developed Technocracy is a society in which each can exercise their abilities, and, hence, are thereby empowered.  Marx expresses a Technocratic ideal in his "From each according to their abilities" formulation, though Dialectic Materialism, as 'scientific' Socialism, is Theory, not Practice, and, hence, is not a dimension of a Technocracy.  Plato's Republic is a Technocracy insofar as Ability is determined by Nature.  In contrast, the concept of Freedom that is a cardinal element in Modern Individualism does not necessarily entail Techne, and, so, is not necessarily an empowered condition.  And, Technocracy in this sense has little to do with the common use of the term as part of derogatory rhetoric that typically targets institutional efforts to correct racial segregation.