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Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
/176/ The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
On the Professional-Managerial Class.
Catherine Liu joins us to talk about the worst class in history (the PMC), and how and why they hoard all forms of secularised value. We discuss the development of the PMC as a class, figure out when it stopped being "heroic", and debate who the PMC'S leader might be. We conclude by asking whether the Left needs the PMC (or vice versa?).
The discussion will continue next week – focusing on recent unionising in professional workplaces, how the PMC brings up its children, and whether the "culture industry" is still a thing – in a subscriber-only episode on our patreon.
Readings:
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Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional-Managerial Class, Catherine Liu, University of Minnesota Press, 2021
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Moral Minoritarianism from the Ashes of Left Populism, George Hoare, Damage
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Saving Britain's Universities report, Lee Jones & Phillip Cunliffe, Cieo
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Capital, of course, is no less fantastical and historically idealized. It's like, if you're not literally a factory owner, preferably also a pig in a top hat, you don't count. This type of cosplay analysis is useless, and (I thought) endemic to the Post-Left crowd.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Interesting conversation, disappointingly vague in the closing stages. You can't lump nurses into the PMC just so you can express some hope for the "lower tiers" of that class acting in broader societal interests. Equally nonsensical to describe venture capitalists as "higher-tier" PMC. Whenever left commentators start stratifying the PMC, I get the sense that they're operating in useless abstractions, fantasizing about some idealized working class that's about to rise against Capital...
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
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