Bureaucracy is the legacy of the bad habits of the old feudal officialdom, and its key is to get rid of the masses, be an official and be a master, or dominate others above others; Or not practical, arbitrary command; Or perfunctory and irresponsible; Or in a daze, unintentionally; Or empty talk, not doing practical things, etc.
Formalism is a bad style of work, the key of which is to only seek fame, not effectiveness, or to emphasize form rather than content; Or just look at the process, regardless of the result; Or just look at the surface, regardless of the essence; Or practise fraud, deceive the superior and deceive the inferior, etc. Although bureaucracy and formalism are different.
However, they often go hand in hand and collude with each other. This is because their ideological roots are the same, that is, there is no mass in their hearts and individualism is at work; Their thinking methods are the same, that is, the separation of subject and object, the disconnection between knowledge and practice, and subjectivism; The harm of the two is the same, eroding the foundation of the ruling party-the people's heart and the party's heart, eroding the socialist building and causing huge material waste. They are "* * * joint crimes", so it is natural to criticize them together.