Podcasts about professional managerial class

Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Catherine Liu, author of 'Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class" to discuss her critiques of PMC Progressivism and why "the Left" of today has failed to court enough working support and continues to lose to the Right.  Timestamps:  00:00 Liberal vs Socialist Feminism (The Backroom Preview) 03:16 The Professional Managerial Class (PMC) 20:09 The Brahmin Left vs. The Merchant Right 34:04 The Vulnerability Fetish 41:39 Trauma Culture and Academic Anti-Elitism 46:32 Virtue Signalling and The Left-Liberal Distinction 01:00:00 Moral Relativism and The Rejection of Universalism 01:14:40 The Right Vs Left PMC 01:17:05 Transition to The Backroom Read more with Speechify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via=1Dime⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out Catherine Liu's Work: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1517912253?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KQGSNPQ3KGTJH317QRV2 Follow Catherine Liu on X: https://x.com/bureaucatliu?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Follow me on X: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial:  Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Outro Music by Karl Casey Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5 Star Rating if you enjoy the show!

Scholar and author of 'Vitrue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class' Catharine Liu (@bureaucatliu) talks about her personal political journey as a Chinese-American within the trenches of western academia, where the Left went wrong, and her read on the 2024 elections. This is a super fun episode-- you're not going to want to miss it! Catherine is a gem. 'Vitrue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class' https://cliuanon.substack.com/ Support Probably Cancelled on Patreon to get early access to episodes or submit your questions to the new PC Pod advice column!: https://www.patreon.com/probablycancelledpod Subscribe to PC Pod on Rumble & Telegram: t.me/pcpod

By now, you've all already heard the news: After coming in hot with Brat memes and aligning itself with Wall Street and Liz Cheney, the Kamala Harris campaign suffered a historic and existentially unsettling defeat—delivering America straight into the hands of what the Democrats warned us was the worst outcome possible, which was another four years of Donald Trump. Here to help us make sense of it in terms of longer-tail shifts in American class dynamics and political consciousness is Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and author of the book Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against The Professional Managerial Class.The book's polemic against an elite class of contemporary knowledge workers— think: the corporate managers, cable news pundits, political consultants, credentialed experts, and arts and entertainment power players who can't get enough of signaling their own virtue, even as their work often functions to shore up an unequal status quo — goes a long way to explaining how America became so culturally divided.And we also think it's a useful tool for understanding how the election played out — from the Democrats' failure to meaningfully engage with bread-and-butter issues and Gaza, to the party's decision to shift right instead of listening to its own base, to its tone-deaf insistence on joy in the face of widespread economic insecurity and despair. (We should note that we, too, are members of the professional managerial class, as are many of our listeners, which is part of why we feel that talking about this stuff is so important). Catherine joins us to discuss how the PMC became so deeply alienated from the working class, the differences between Trump's brand of right-wing populism and actual economic populism, and where the Democrats, and the Left, go from here. Plus, we touch on what cultural opposition looks like in a world where the Left has so clearly lost the meme war. (Sorry, Charli.)Subscribe to The Culture JournalistFollow Catherine on Substack and X.Read Virtue Hoarders via University of Minnesota Press.Read Catherine's article, “Postmodern Liberalism and the Democratic Party” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theculturejournalist.substack.com/subscribe

My guest is Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of 'Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class'. We discuss the origin of trauma studies, self branding on social media and the ideology of the professional class. Liu has an unwavering commitment to historical materialism and a fierce critique of elitist academies. She explores the intense moralism of our times as it relates to the Freudian super-ego.

An interview with Marc James Léger00:00 Introduction and Special Guest Announcement00:13 Mark James Leger on Identity Politics05:25 Personal Experiences and Public Secrets10:21 The Impact of Identity Politics on Academia14:22 Historical Context and Marxism22:48 The Shift from Class to Identity Politics29:29 The Professional Managerial Class and Cultural Shifts40:45 Post-War Cultural Changes and Consumerism53:32 Emergence of New Social Mores54:16 The Cultural Impact of Barbie54:54 Current State of Society55:33 Challenges in Publishing56:19 Slide156:28 Critique of Bernie Sanders' Campaign58:02 Slide358:05 Obama's Official Portraits Controversy59:51 Identity Politics and Class Struggle59:51 Slide401:01:47 Slide501:03:43 The Rise of Fascism and Identity Politics01:19:47 Slide1201:21:28 Art and Identity in Academia01:33:06 Slide601:37:08 Historical Perspectives on Art01:39:11 Renaissance Humanism and Artistic Evolution01:40:29 The Shift from Feudal to Bourgeois Art01:41:39 Romanticism and the Bohemian Avant-Garde01:43:22 The Rise of Autonomous Art and Van Gogh01:45:30 Post-War Cultural Shifts and the Petty Bourgeoisie01:49:06 The Professional Managerial Class and Identity Politics01:55:41 The Left's Struggle with Class and Identity02:11:10 Cultural Production and Critique in Modern Times02:16:31 Slide3002:17:27 Slide3102:19:50 Slide3302:22:59 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsMarc on AcademiaTo financially support the Podcast you can make:a per-episode donation via Patreon or one-off donation via credit card; orone-off or regular donations via Paypal orif you are into Cryptocurrency you can send Satoshis. We Livestream every Monday night at 8:00 pm Brisbane time. Follow us on Facebook or YouTube. Watch us live and join the discussion in the chat room.You can sign up for our newsletter, which links to articles that Trevor has highlighted as potentially interesting and that may be discussed on the podcast. You will get 3 emails per week.We have a website. www.ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can email us. The address is trevor@ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can send us a voicemail message at SpeakpipeWe have a sister podcast called IFVG Evergreen. It is a collection of evergreen content from the weekly podcast. Transcripts started in episode 324. You can use

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Catherine Liu wrote the definitive case against the Professional Managerial Class -- a group of elite wage workers who tend to dominate media, politics, and other leadership positions due to their educational attainment and other class signifiers that set them apart from the rest of the working class. She has identified the PMC as a key obstacle to achieving substantive gains for the working class as a whole. But is that changing as economic precarity reaches more and more people, and as candidates like Kamala Harris reveal the emptiness of PMC identity politics? Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Curious about how the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) fits into today's leftist strategy debates? Join us as Dutch socialist Foppe De Haan takes us through his personal journey within the Dutch Socialist Party, his discontent with its approach to identity politics, and the transformative influence of Bernie Sanders' campaign. Fapa offers a critical perspective on integrating identity politics into leftist strategies, a topic that is both contentious and crucial in today's political climate.We also delve into the intellectual history and ongoing discussions about the PMC, referencing influential thinkers like Christopher Lash, Adolph Reed, the Ehrenreichs, and others. Critiques of Catherine Lou's "Virtue Hoarders" and explorations of class dynamics through the lens of Eric Olin Wright's distinctions between oppression and domination add depth to our conversation. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking a nuanced understanding of class dynamics and the role of the PMC in contemporary capitalism. Don't miss out on this thought-provoking discussion! Support the Show.Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on Youtube

In this episode, Dr. @ChrisDMott, a renowned scholar in international relations & geopolitical strategy, joins us to discuss how NGOs are used to advance the imperialist agenda under a guise of humanitarian aid & development.  Read Chris's article The Democratist War on Diplomacy Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu The Ideology of Democratism by Emily B. Finley Subscribe to PC Pod on Rumble & Telegram Follow PC pod on Twitter @CancellledPod

In this episode we discuss Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu. Next time we'll discuss The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg.

In this episode we discuss The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter. Next time we'll discuss Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu.

Support the show and get exclusive content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ Read More with Speechify: https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via=1Dime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, we discuss the influence that the so-called "Professional Managerial Class" (PMC) exerts on the political scene, class structures, and the ideology of the right and the contemporary "left." Discussion revolves around PMC's intersection with identity politics, its role in the dissolution of the Democrats' working-class base, and its permeation in academia. In this episode, we dive into the Origins of the PMC and the history of the theory surrounding it. This includes the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, James Burnham, Tomas Frank, Catherine Liu, among others I also express some of my criticisms of PMC discourse and the problem of "class identity politics." There are numerous people who have written about the PMC. Adolph Reed, Catherine Liu, David Graeber, and many more. For this episode, I decided to bring on David McKerracher and Elton L.K. =, who have a short course on  @theory_underground  that is dedicated to understanding the PMC and the history of the theory behind it. You can find this course for free on YouTube and it covers a lot of the key ideas from the most important books written about the subject of the PMC: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TLyjRKSnWmx1glc3vC3SsRh&si=_OYcUrMwXh_RB9pk Subscribe to Theory Underground: https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground/featured Elton L.K. is the founder and organizer of Dead Parrots Philosophical Society, a local public philosophy group that meets monthly in Boise. He runs two podcasts that relate more to his political work at the DSA: Working Class Intelligentsia, a podcast about Gramsci, and another called CLASS, which is an official education arm of the national education committee of the DSA. David McKerracher (Dave), founder of ⁠⁠Theory Underground⁠⁠, an educational platform for learning theory, and publishing house for organic intellectuals or aspiring theorists who pursue theory and philosophy outside of academia, or people with academic backgrounds who don't want to be restricted by academic fetters, i.e. renegade academics. Dave and Elton are both contributors to the book Underground Theory, which features some big names like Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, and some smaller names like Dave, Elton and myself: https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Theory-David-McKerracher/dp/B0CH2CXSGN Check out 1Dime's videos if you haven't already: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating if you get value out of 1Dime Radio!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Perils of Professionalism, published by Screwtape on November 8, 2023 on LessWrong. Professionalism is a useful trait to be able to display, but it isn't an unalloyed good. This essay is attempting to outline why deliberately not signaling professionalism may be useful for you. First, a definition by example for professionalism: Clean button down shirts with solid colour ties, blazers or suit jackets, clean shaven beards, hair tied up in a bun without flyers, beige or gray or at least solid colour cars and desks and walls, even toned voices with just enough of a hint of emotion not to sound at all robotic or unempathetic. It's not the Professional Managerial Class but they (particularly as Patrick McKenzie sometimes describes them) are often its exemplars. I. The word "professional" is defined as a person engaged in a specific activity as one's main paid occupation. It contrasts straightforwardly with "amateur," a person who engages in an activity on an unpaid basis. Notably, "amateur" can also mean someone who is incompetent at a particular activity. As a point of language, we conflate skill and getting paid, and we do this in both directions. If you want to get paid for doing something, you want to learn to do it professionally. Doing something professionally often includes adjacent but not obviously synonymous skills. Some of these are very closely adjacent; I have been a professional software engineer and I have been involved in hiring professional software engineers, and if you don't know how to use source control as a software engineer then you want to learn to use source control. Yes, I know it's not a cool new algorithm. Yes, I know the end user will never see it. Trust me, you're going to use it. Some of the expected skills of a professional are less about the core skill of the job, and more about the frame of the job. "Being on time" and "dressing appropriately" and "conducting yourself properly" are all often given as examples of professional skills which apply in a wide range of fields. Put bluntly, if you're going to interact with a customer especially in a white collar job, it helps to not have facial tattoos and to not swear casually. We seem to have drifted very quickly into something that seemingly has almost no bearing on your ability to do the actual job at hand! Nevertheless, I expect pretty much every career coach in the western world to back me up on the main points here. I first successfully traded money for software when I was around thirteen years old, and while I have gotten better at writing software over the intervening mumble mumble years I have improved even more in my ability to present myself as a Professional Software Engineer. II. Lets talk about my first professional software engineering project. (Here I'm using "professional" to mean "I got paid for it." As you're about to find out, it was unprofessional in almost every other sense of the word.) As best I remember it, the job went something like this. A friend of my mother's heard that I was "good with computers" and asked me if I knew how to build a website. I did as a matter of fact, having recently managed to get my own Apache server running. She said that her organization needed a website where they could announce their events and where people could learn about the organization, and would I be willing to build that for an amount of money that equaled several months' allowance. I said sure, and asked her a bunch of questions about what needed to be on the website. A week later when I unveiled it, she sounded delighted with it, made a handful of corrections to the text, and I showed her how to add new events. This next paragraph describing the website will be pure jargon if you aren't at least a little bit of a web developer. If it doesn't make sense, just skip it and underst...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Perils of Professionalism, published by Screwtape on November 8, 2023 on LessWrong. Professionalism is a useful trait to be able to display, but it isn't an unalloyed good. This essay is attempting to outline why deliberately not signaling professionalism may be useful for you. First, a definition by example for professionalism: Clean button down shirts with solid colour ties, blazers or suit jackets, clean shaven beards, hair tied up in a bun without flyers, beige or gray or at least solid colour cars and desks and walls, even toned voices with just enough of a hint of emotion not to sound at all robotic or unempathetic. It's not the Professional Managerial Class but they (particularly as Patrick McKenzie sometimes describes them) are often its exemplars. I. The word "professional" is defined as a person engaged in a specific activity as one's main paid occupation. It contrasts straightforwardly with "amateur," a person who engages in an activity on an unpaid basis. Notably, "amateur" can also mean someone who is incompetent at a particular activity. As a point of language, we conflate skill and getting paid, and we do this in both directions. If you want to get paid for doing something, you want to learn to do it professionally. Doing something professionally often includes adjacent but not obviously synonymous skills. Some of these are very closely adjacent; I have been a professional software engineer and I have been involved in hiring professional software engineers, and if you don't know how to use source control as a software engineer then you want to learn to use source control. Yes, I know it's not a cool new algorithm. Yes, I know the end user will never see it. Trust me, you're going to use it. Some of the expected skills of a professional are less about the core skill of the job, and more about the frame of the job. "Being on time" and "dressing appropriately" and "conducting yourself properly" are all often given as examples of professional skills which apply in a wide range of fields. Put bluntly, if you're going to interact with a customer especially in a white collar job, it helps to not have facial tattoos and to not swear casually. We seem to have drifted very quickly into something that seemingly has almost no bearing on your ability to do the actual job at hand! Nevertheless, I expect pretty much every career coach in the western world to back me up on the main points here. I first successfully traded money for software when I was around thirteen years old, and while I have gotten better at writing software over the intervening mumble mumble years I have improved even more in my ability to present myself as a Professional Software Engineer. II. Lets talk about my first professional software engineering project. (Here I'm using "professional" to mean "I got paid for it." As you're about to find out, it was unprofessional in almost every other sense of the word.) As best I remember it, the job went something like this. A friend of my mother's heard that I was "good with computers" and asked me if I knew how to build a website. I did as a matter of fact, having recently managed to get my own Apache server running. She said that her organization needed a website where they could announce their events and where people could learn about the organization, and would I be willing to build that for an amount of money that equaled several months' allowance. I said sure, and asked her a bunch of questions about what needed to be on the website. A week later when I unveiled it, she sounded delighted with it, made a handful of corrections to the text, and I showed her how to add new events. This next paragraph describing the website will be pure jargon if you aren't at least a little bit of a web developer. If it doesn't make sense, just skip it and underst...

Live event at Housman's Bookshop.   George Hoare hosts Dan Evans (author of A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie) and Bungacast regular Catherline Liu (author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class) in a conversation about the middle class.    How should we conceptualise the middle class, how has it come to dominate politics, and what should be done about it?

Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, visits the podcast to discuss Phillip Guston, the PMC and cultural institutions. She is the author of Virtue Hoarders (2021). https://cliuanon.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/bureaucatliu https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virtue-hoarders

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, then living in London, Singapore and now India, my guest Bharti Lalwani believes her outsider status is key to ‘speaking truth to power' - the job of an art critic. Now experimenting in art criticism through perfumery, Bharti brought Mughal and Rajput paintings to life through a study of their gardens, flowers, and scents with her collaborator Nicolas Roth. Join me in this (long but) fascinating chat with a young independent art critic, writer, perfumer, and artist as she criss-crosses the globe, and the art and academic worlds! Listen now here or at www.theindianedit.com and please take a second to rate us wherever you're listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 79:Explore the exhibition on the Bagh-e-Hind websiteConnect with Bharti at Litrahb Perfumery on the website and on InstagramOpening Night: A fantastic Zoom through the exhibit and a wonderful discussion hosted by the curators Books we discussed:Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine LiuQuestions? Comments? Get in touch @theindianeditpodcast on Instagram !Special thanks to Sudipta Biswas and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

For this DHP episode, CJ was happy to be joined again by Alexander Von Sternberg to talk about a recent episode Alex did on his show, History Impossible, called "Stakeholder Naziism." Join CJ & Alex on a wide-ranging, freewheeling conversation about "stakeholder capitalism," its methodological similarities to fascism, the modern American "professional managerial class," how Wokeism fits into this, how these phenomena manifest in various institutions (including Hollywood & academia), and potential action items & white pills in the face of this seeming Orwellian Juggernaut! Links History Impossible on Patreon Alex's Substack Come meet CJ & see him speak about the decline & fall of empires at the Self-Reliance Festival in Camden, TN, March 25-6th! (And get your tickets ASAP if possible, because the price will increase on Feb. 22!) Get your FREE Dangerous American History Bibliography by signing up for CJ's email list here! Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar! Contribute to CJ's (still ongoing) Indiegogo campaign! CJ's DHP Amazon Wish List Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Parenting is the topic that keeps on giving, and so Jess gets together with Eliza and Filip to talk about the peculiar way Professional Managerial Class (PMC) parents raise their kids. If the PMC obsession with spending money on bougie strollers and Harvard-prep daycares doesn't lead to happier, more successful kids, then what's it actually for? Eliza shares some practical advice for Asian American parents who want to escape the rat race. Part 2 is available on Patreon for subscribers. Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamag Check out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/ REFERENCED RESOURCES: The PMC Has Children from Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu: https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-pmc-has-children/ Death of a Yuppie Dream by Barbara and John EHRENREICH: https://inthesetimes.com/article/death-of-a-yuppie-dream The Real Class War by Julius Krein: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war/ The Characterless Opportunism of the Managerial Class by Amber A'Lee Frost: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-characterless-opportunism-of-the-managerial-class/ EFPA Theme:
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There are good reasons to hesitate using the term "PMC." There are also a lot of people who need to think more about the designation of this term. The subject-matter is ideology at a level deeper than most people tend to go. The assumptions, habits, and general mode of the PMC are distinguishable from the rest of the working class. The "Professional Managerial Class" is not just a cluster of professionals and managers, but specifically an analysis of the way that class society is reproduced. It is essential for understanding capitalism today, but simultaneously serves as a critique for a lot of purported "alternatives" to capitalism. Socialism, fascism, and New Deal liberalism, are all three different flavors of managerial control correcting for certain contradictions that Marx had thought would destine it to ruin. It is hardly surprising that Marx left the PMC, its existence and role, out of his analysis; he was writing at a time when most of its current roles did not exist or were being carried out by either the capitalists or the workers themselves. But Marxists aren't the only ones who need to take the PMC critique seriously. Liberals and conservatives do as well. Revolutionary or reformist, left or right, insofar as you want to think seriously about what constitutes society, much less positive ways of changing it, PMC critique is something you will need to think through. I am being joined by my friend and colleague Elton L.K. of Working Class Intelligentsia podcast in leading a series of lectures and discussions on the topic of the PMC, its critique and consciousness. The course begins on the 25th of January, so two weeks from today. Think about enrolling today! If you want to hear more about this idea or get a sense for what the conversational part of this series will be like, then check out this conversation we did tonight: Starts next weekend! Sign up here https://theory-underground.com/courses/pmc/ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Welcome to the Theory Underground. Theory Underground aims to make challenging philosophical and theoretical work accessible, not by summarizing, but by aiding those who seek to engage in this work as a way of life. The website will be seeing big time improvements every day. If you want to help out, you can try using it and give me feedback at theorypleeb@gmail.com If you take a course or join a discussion, there will be a group with dedicated forums on the website. Because fuck Discord. We want to honor quality questions, not bury them. We want to honor people who actually read as opposed to staying glued to their phones all day, so we aren't going to become reliant on a "community" app that is so attention-demanding. Forums give people time to think and come back later to ask questions or add to discussions. Help beta trial this at https://theory-underground.com/ Check out the courses, patron tiers and books, as well as events listed at these links: https://theory-underground.com/courses https://theory-underground.com/support https://theory-underground.com//events Also the Theory Underground instagram and TikTok are both where it's happening: https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground/ https://tiktok.com/@theory_underground MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level.   Catherine Liu is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)

We discuss Catherine Liu's excellent book Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, but focus on the only chapter we have sharp criticism of entitled 'The PMC Has Sex'. Why? Because the chapter represents the failings many communists, Marxists, and socialists have when it comes to an analysis of sexual politics and unwillingness to engage with feminism.On The Woman Question (our blog) will soon have a positive review of the overall book on the site. 

This episode merely contains a couple announcements. The first is an online class I'm going to be teaching with Dave McKerracher on the PMC, also known as the Professional Managerial Class. The second announcement is about my DSA NPEC podcast, Class. Class: Democratic Socialists of America National Political Education Committee podcast https://education.dsausa.org/class-the-npec-podcast/ Theory Underground: Professional Managerial Class Consciousness 8 week course, meet every other Wednesday starting January 25, 2022 https://theory-underground.com/courses/pmc/?fbclid=IwAR0hh3FS2PedZ5_ApjYoV796Vp_pY4-jg6uivMk3d1RPiPahlFXOmvtACk4#learndash-course-content Theory Underground Courses https://theory-underground.com/courses/ Michael Downs, the Dangerous Maybe https://link.medium.com/sMvhw6PgSvb --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theworkingclassintelligentsia/message

Liebe Zuschauer, ein neuer Trend in der Arbeitswelt wird erkennbar, der in den USA eingesetzt hat. Die Twitter-Übernahme durch Elon Musk hat es plakativ gezeigt: Es gibt offensichtlich eine Menge nutzloser Mitarbeiter in den Tech-Konzernen, aber nicht nur dort. Diese Kaste von Akademikern mit sogenannten E-Mail-Jobs hat sich in fast jedes Unternehmen eingenistet und trägt Null zur Produktivität bei. Das erkennen immer mehr Unternehmen. Euer Thomas Netzseite: https://www.digitaler-chronist.com Digitaler Chronist auf Telegram: https://t.me/DigitalChronist Alle unsere Kanäle auf einer Seite, bitte folgt uns auch auf den anderen Plattformen, man weiß nie... https://www.digitaler-chronist.com/alle-unsere-kanaele-auf-einen-blick/ Wenn Ihr unsere Arbeit unterstützen möchtet... Bankverbindung: N26 Thomas Grabinger IBAN: DE76 1001 1001 2624 5985 47 BIC: NTSBDEB1XXX Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/digitalerchronist Mit Apple Pay oder Kreditkarte bei Stripe https://buy.stripe.com/cN229tfIdb749KU288 Bitcoin: 3Mq26ouX6QZAQcyyb79hjPjFcrgENBVBec #DigitalerChronist, #DC #CO2istLeben, #WachAuf, #ausGEZahlt Hintergrund: Eigenproduktion Es handelt sich hierbei um Polit-Satire. Falls sich irgendjemand beleidigt fühlt, bitte ich um Entschuldigung!  Art. 5 III Satz 1 GG, Kunst- und Wissenschaftsfreiheit Twitter: Aufstand der Nutzlosen https://jungefreiheit.de/debatte/kommentar/2022/twitter-entlassungen/ Der Widerstand gegen Elon Musk ist ein letztes Aufbäumen der woken „Professional-Managerial Class“, der überflüssigen Bürokraten, die in Wachstumszeiten in Saus und Braus lebten. Sie ahnen, dass es vorbei ist. Der „E-Mail-Job“-Kahlschlag in der Tech-Branche wird gigantisch. https://twitter.com/Spreeathen1/status/1593538739648794626 Elon Musk Eliminated Remote Work Because Working From Home "Doesn't Work" Musk wants to implement a "24/7" work culture. https://archive.ph/O8eyB

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This episode was unplanned, but when Barbara Ehrenreich died on September 1, 2022, we felt an urge to honor her memory and the profound influence she has had on the American left, socialism, feminism, and our collective thinking about class struggle. From her work in the women's health movement of the 1960s, to her theorizing (with  ex-husband John Ehrenreich) of the "professional-managerial class" in the 1970s, to her explorations of Reagan-era yuppie pathologies, and her renowned exposé of low-wage work in 2001's Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich has been an essential and nuanced guide to the inner-life of American class conflict in the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. To undertake this journey through an extraordinary body of work, we're joined by two brilliant writers who have both — in their own way — taken up  Ehrenreich's profound ethical and intellectual challenge: Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin magazine (and KYE's favorite labor journalist); and returning guest Gabe Winant, University of Chicago historian and author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care.As Gabe writes in his stunning obituary last week, "Ehrenreich's specialty was to reveal her readers to themselves by showing them the other. Her humor and projection of personal vulnerability were particularly deft techniques for asking the reader to see their own position, often through identification with Ehrenreich: she invites this, beckoning you to follow her into her subject, and then suddenly wheels around on you—and you are caught out." We hope this episode can manage something of that technique for the listener, that you might find yourself "caught out" too, thinking deeply about where you fit into the story Barbara is telling — and what it might call on you to do, fight for, or think harder about. Enjoy.  Further Reading: Barbara & John Ehrenreich, "The Professional-Managerial Class," Radical America, March 1977. — "The New Left and the Professional Managerial Class," Radical America, May 1977.— "Death of a Yuppie Dream," Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Feb 2013. Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, The Feminist Press, 1973.Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, Pantheon, 1989. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Metropolitan, 2001. Barbara Ehrenreich, "Preface to Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History," U of Minnesota Press, 1987. Gabriel Winant, "On Barbara Ehrenreich," n+1, Sept 9, 2022. — "Professional-Managerial Chasm," n+1, Oct 10, 2019. — "The Right Kind of Worker," Know Your Enemy, May 2022. Alex Press, "On the Origins of the Professional-Managerial Class: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich." Dissent, Oct 22, 2019. David Rieff, "White Bread, White Dread (review of Fear of Falling)," LA Times, Aug 20, 1989.   This episode of Know Your Enemy is dedicated to Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) and all those who loved and learned from her.

Special guest host Matt Binder is joined by cultural theorist Catherine Liu to discuss her recent book, “Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class.” First, Matt walks through updates on Libs of Tik Tok's first official ban (from Meta of all places), chicken wing prices reaching a four-year low, and Mike Pence's response to being asked about testifying for the January 6th committee. Then, Catherine Liu joins as she gets right into helping define what the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) is, their role in executing the bosses' orders and managing our social institutions, and how they came to take the mantle of liberal vanguardists, dominating the ideology of the democratic party over their blue-collar counterparts. Next, they parse through the PMC's relationship to, and bolstering of the systems of capitalism, taking the benefits of much more social mobility than the working class and a feeling of superiority to physical laborers for their endorsement of capitalism and its modes of rationality, exploring its development starting at the end of the ‘60s and progressing through the neoliberal era as PMCs moved into suburbs and left the industrial world behind, with public discourse shifting to cultural critiques and allowing them to rest on their laurels above the dirty blue-collar world. Liu and Binder also tackle the growing split between generations of PMC, with the full financialization of college crippling incoming laborers with debt before they can even enter the workforce while the illusion of college-educated superiority remains necessary for the PMC's obsession with status, before wrapping up by walking through the growing striations of the professional classes, the difference between general white-collar workers and professional managers, and whether the PMC can trust socialism's version of a rising tide lifting all boats. And in the Fun Half: Matt Binder is joined by Brandon Sutton as they watch Fox News' highlight package of John Fetterman's best smackdowns on Dr. Oz, as well as Oz's attempt to cover his ass on Newsmax. Matt Gaetz gets hit with the “is a literal pedophile sex trafficker” attack ads, Bill from the Chicago suburbs talks Ukraine and behind-the-scenes negotiations, and Ren from the deep state talks about Trump violating Q's clearance. They also tackle Chaiya Raichik's stochastic terrorism inciting countless death threats against Boston Children's Hospital and Missouri's GOP Senate Majority Leader announcing their focus on the “Trans Issue” (no relation to the Jewish Question, of course), plus, your calls and IMs!  

 In Episode 66 we discuss how a relatively small class of professionals, who do not own the means of production, side with those who do and work against social change to elevate workers' conditions. The Professional Managerial Class as a “middle layer” has tokenized self-optimization and hustle mentality and created a system of supposed moral superiority which works in favor of conserving their position of relative wealth and power. Spoiler alert: If you're reading this, you're probably part of the “PMC” ;)The episode in a nutshell: Mary-Jane ponders the come-back of the term “class”, Catherine depicts PMC rhetoric as a secular way to moralize class difference and Human realizes how the tokenization of good deeds (virtue signaling) can hinder actual progress.Shownotes:Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Book (Erscheint auf Deutsch im Januar 2023)Catherine Liu, American Idyll: academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique, BuchSigfried Kracauer, Die Angestellten, Book C. Wright Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, Book Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State, Book Wolfgang M. Schmitt & Stefan Schulz, Die Neuen Zanziger - Salon, Podcast (Paywall) 

Traditionally within Marxist thought, there are two major classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, or workers and capitalists. Within these two classes, however, there are many strata — and in this episode we take a deep dive into one particular stratum. The professional managerial class, or the PMC, is comprised of highly educated, often centrist or liberal leaning individuals who tend to uphold the systems and institutions of capitalist society while at the same time viewing itself as the virtuous vanguard of progress. And although this class falls within the working class, its allegiances and sympathies lie with capitalists. And indeed, in most ways, it does benefit from capitalism. To discuss the professional managerial class and its position within capitalism further, we've brought on someone who's written an entire book about it. Catherine Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. In this conversation we discuss who the PMC is comprised of, how this class emerged, and why it poses a unique threat to socialist and communist aspirations. Thank you to Sleater-Kinney for the intermission music. Upstream theme music was composed by Robert Raymond. Support for this episode was provided by the Guerrilla Foundation and by listeners like you. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider chipping in a one-time or recurring donation at www.upstreampodcast.org/support Also, if your organization wants to sponsor one of our upcoming episodes, we have a number of sponsorship packages available. Find out more at upstreampodcast.org/sponsorship For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

In this deliciously radical episode, Dr. Van Jackson sits down with Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, and the forthcoming Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.  Malcolm explains how political economy made Millennials, what's wrong with thinking of yourself as human capital, the crisis of student debt, and how he moved from anti-war protests to the Occupy Movement.  Malcolm also makes the case the Millennials will either be the first genuine to push American oligarchy off its ledge, or the first generation of true American fascists. Van and Malcolm also talk leftist strategy and revolution.Readings Mentioned During the Episode:Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: The Making of MillennialsMalcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the WorldMalcolm Harris, "Bad Education," N+1 magazineHarry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly CapitalPaul Adler, "The Future of Critical Management Studies"Erik Olin-Wright, Envisioning Real UtopiasMelinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social ConservativsmBarbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, "Death of a Yuppie Dream"On Monopoly-Finance Capital: https://monthlyreview.org/2006/12/01/monopoly-finance-capital/

Catherine Liu joins the pleeb to discuss how the PMC hijacks revolutionary potential towards its own advancement and virtue hoarding. "The Professional Managerial Class" has become a hot topic in some circles, but it is rarely critiqued in good faith. Liu (and Pleeb) argue that the PMC is a necessary mode of analysis and critique if we are to ever get out of the current political deadlock.All of Pleeb's work has been de-monetized and self-funded for over a year. If you want to give back in any way you can support #FreeMikey at www.Patreon.com/TheDangerousMaybe. Tell him Pleeb sent you.Learning a language? Follow pleeb on Duolingo and use this link so pleeb gets a week of free Plus https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEIGet Pleeb's updates and thoughts here https://nspleeb.substack.com/Make sure to follow https://www.instagram.com/pleebmemes/ for memes related to pleeb's work and communityPLAYLISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW:Pleeb 'n Mikey Lecture-Interviewshttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TLvXtp5bYnmCjf_otZw0M2NPleeb interviews and gets schooled by amazing peoplehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TKo5_C6vyIphjsMD7c_fbMwProfessor Pleeb Lectureshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TISAuNvqAdpOexm08Gc8yVhPleeb's old video essayshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TJpzDw4TRjnW3zR9Al-3_JxPleeb's Assisted Readings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcbaQ1cp2TKnWyq5fxA5pMTAMtxGzuExMUSIC CREDITSRoyalty Free Planet - EVA - Rear ViewLicense:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0http://bit.ly/RFP_CClicenseMike Chino – Demigods: https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOkLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - http://bit.ly/RFP_CClicense

If you pit human rights against security, you're doing foreign policy wrong.  How to think about LGBTQIA-plus rights and strategy.  Being realistic about China-Cambodia relations.  Why Biden is still ambiguous about Taiwan.  Dissecting what's wrong with the national security "Blob."  The role of a PMC technocracy in a social democratic order.  The importance of libraries to society. Peter Beinart v. the Blob: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/opinion/biden-the-blob-china-us.html?smid=tw-shareBlake Herzinger on Cambodia: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/10/cambodia-navy-china-bombing/ Kelsey Atherton Tweet: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1531685221682356231JP Bristol Tweet: https://twitter.com/JPierreBrissot/status/1528754834953932803?t=Dl2ib1LBBfQV5_xCU-lVlg&s=19Buffy the Psych Prof Tweet: https://twitter.com/drpsybuffy/status/1533459570747744258?s=21&t=lSlEy8gkkjW9U7yl0y-yKwAdam Mahoney Tweet: https://twitter.com/AdamLMahoney/status/1531851079276560384Contributors: Tejas Menon, Hunter Marston, Ciara Mitchell, Jake Dellow 

Mary-Jane Bolten Mary-Jane Bolten antwortet auf Humans Frage nach der spontanen Ordnung und warum sich die Dinge eigentlich nicht wirklich verändern mit den Thesen des Buches “Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class” von Catherine Liu. Die Autorin führt den Begriff der “Professional Managerial Class (PMC) ein, eine neue Klasse von Angestellten, die … Re: Spontane Ordnung & die erhabene Ideologie des Marktes: Die Tugendhamsterer weiterlesen

Über Demographie schreiben, aber sich nicht in Generationenfragen verheddern. Johannes Müller-Salo hat ein Buch über die Generationen in Deutschland geschrieben. Er sähe sie gerne im Konflikt. Wir widersprechen. So dringend es ist, Fragen zum Geld und zur Freiheit zu stellen, so wichtig ist es, den Diskurs konstruktiv zu gestalten. Für den krawalligen WEg entschied sich allerdings auch Catherine Liu in ihrem Buch über die PMC, die Professional Managerial Class, in Deutschland bekannt als "die Selbstgerechten" über die Shara Wagenknecht bereits schrieb. Liu argumentiert klüger, sucht sogar eine zivile Debatte, genießt aber auch ihre Polemik. Das Buch greift weit um sich, wir können es auch in Deutschland gut und kritisch lesen. Slavoj Žižek, Adam Tooze und Paul Mason haben sich im Mai zum Ukraine-Krieg und der Lage und Haltung des Westens geäußert. Das Epizentrum ihrer Argumentationen ist Jürgen Habermas' zweiseitiger Text in der SZ. Die Debatten laufen, allerdings kriegt man es mit unterschiedlichen Kalibern zu tun. Dazu noch ein wichtiger Einspruch von Experten gegen die Krypto-Manie, die die amerikanischen Politiker beenden sollen und ein Ausblick auf Frankreichs Parlamentswahlen. Thomas Piketty schrieb in Frankreich, die Blätter haben uns den Text ins Land geholt. Komm' in den Salon. Es gibt ihn via Webplayer & RSS-Feed (zum Hören im Podcatcher deiner Wahl). Wenn du Salon-Stürmer bist, lade weitere Hörer von der Gästeliste ein.

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, will be out from Verso Books in May, 2022. His book discusses the failures of an environmental movement built dominated by the Professional Managerial Class.Check out this GCAS Seminar with Chris Hedges and Boris Franklinhttps://gcascollege.ie/voice-seminar

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 This episode features a conversation with Catherine Liu about the rise of the PMC and the death of traditional liberalism. Is the PMC a class that has overcome capitalist relations in order to shift social outcomes in its favor, or is the Professional Managerial Class merely the servants of capital working to create ideological justifications for continuing under the reign of capitalist relations. 

As we all think through the class tensions that have surfaced in Canada, it's a good time to take a closer look at an ethos held by many of those shaping the dialogue. This group of decision-makers and opinion-shapers, which includes the media, is often referred to in leftist circles as the professional managerial class. Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, has recently published a fierce and funny polemic on the PMC, titled Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. In her conversation with Tara, Liu touches on everything from mommy bloggers to land acknowledgements — and argues that we must insist on viewing society's struggles through an economic lens.

Aaron talks with Catherine Liu and Dan Kovalik about the Professional Managerial Class, "cancel culture," and US empire. Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. Daniel Kovalik is the author of Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. He is also a human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Follow Catherine Liu on Twitter: @bureaucatliu  Check out Dan Kovalik's author page at Amazon  Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!   Music: "Song in D" by Mock Orange

I am so thrilled to welcome Catherine Liu back on the podcast. As many of you know, Catherine is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the author of "Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class" and actually and amateur zoologist. It is that last topic we cover again as Catherine has come prepared with some very exciting observations about non human Earthlings. This is a little snippet of our conversation. To hear the entire episode, please subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/claywoman

All the way back in 1977 John and Barbara Ehrenreich coined the term “the professional-managerial class” to refer to “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labour may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.” The term reemerged in the 2010s with renewed vigour as a useful way of denoting a class of technocratic liberals who occupy an increasingly dominant role in culture and politics, indulging in performative social justice posturing with one hand while resolutely defending the status quo with the other. On this episode, the crew discuss the latest intervention into this particular discourse, Catherine Liu's 2021 book Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional-Managerial Class. In an attempt to locate the PMC in Ireland, we dive deep into the perverse habits and proclivities of this group of people, skewer their tendency to scold and moralise, and debate whether or not we should even think of them as a separate class at all. Oh, and about two thirds of the way through, we also watch some porn. Don't ask me why. Oh, and because we always forget, a quick request (note: not begging) to share the podcast with your friends and family if you think they'd like it. People always say that iTunes reviews help, so maybe do that as well? Otherwise you might just be a perverted PMC dog. 

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Brie speaks to Catherine Liu, professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine & author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, about whether the left takes it's criticism of PMCs too far. Is PMC bashing a kind of reductive class identity politics? Is it worth it to try to mobilize the petite bourgeoisie in an electoral context, or leave them to vote for Elizabeth Warren? Do we love a class traitor, or nah? Also, Catherine & Briahna debate the case for a left immigration strategy, discuss the revolutionary potential of media (including recent hit film Don't Look Up," and more. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod)and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

From the series ‘The elite: old and new', theme of the boi charity's event The Academy, held online in November 2021. The term ‘professional managerial class' was coined in 1977. Thinkers on both left and right have drawn attention to the rise (and rise) of a seemingly new group in society who neither labour in traditional occupations nor own significant amounts of capital. This group of salaried professionals – in the civil service, education, management, public relations, public health etc. – not only increasingly manage the key institutions of society. They are also said to exert a social and ideological influence, promoting ‘progressive' campaigns around gender, sexual, racial, and other identity causes. But who are this group? Can it really be said to be a ‘class', and how do they differ from more familiar elites? Lecture by Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies, University of California Irvine, and the author of ‘Virtue Hoarders: the case against the professional managerial class' THE ACADEMY ONLINE IV: The elite: old and new To view the full programme and some suggested background reading to the talks, please visit  https://theboi.co.uk/academy-online-iv   ASSOCIATED READING For this lecture you may wish to read:- READ: Barbara and John Ehrenreich, The Professional Managerial Class in Radical America, Vol 11, No. 2, 1977 (pdf) https://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1125403552886481.pdf READ: Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: the case against the professional managerial class, 2021 https://amzn.to/3ehMCDS      THE ACADEMY In the context of today's instrumental approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth.   DONATING TO THE BOI CHARITY The BOI charity is committed to continuing to host discussion and debates throughout this period when society is restricted by measures to tackle coronavirus. In order to help us realise events such as the Academy Online, please consider a donation, small or large. Visit: https://theboi.co.uk/donate IDEAS MATTER PODCAST Ideas Matter is a podcast that takes the most important issues of our times and explores the ideas and intellectual trends that have shaped where we are today. You can subscribe and listen to Ideas Matter on iTunes, Podbean, Spotify or SoundCloud. For full details of all episodes, visit the podcast page on our website Keep up-to-date with Ideas Matter and all the initiatives organised by the Battle of Ideas charity by following us on Twitter (@theboi_uk) and on Facebook (battleofideas).

Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virtue-hoarders), Catherine Liu (https://twitter.com/bureaucatliu) joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more! The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu (https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/the-apotheosis-of-the-professional-class), Catalyst. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner. (https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/impressive-almanac-2)

On Thursday 9 November, George Hoare and Alex Hochuli took part in a conversation with Catherine Liu about their recent books – The End of the End of History and Virtue Hoarders, respectively. The focus was on the social and political role of the Professional-Managerial Class in historical context. The webinar was hosted and presented by the UCI Humanities Center, as part of their Ideas with Impact series and we're reposting the conversation as a podcast here.

Everything bad in American is traced back to its professional managerial class, the highly credentialed self dealing charlatans carrying water for the richest one percent. We talk with Professor Catherine Liu author of the classic "Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against The Professional Managerial Class." This is a Pledgisode. Please support independent media by donating to this show: https://davidfeldmanshow.com/supporting-people-in-need/ Guests With Time Codes (3:36) David Does the News (1:13:30) Catherine Liu (Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine and author of "Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class") (2:02:00) Howie Klein (founder and treasurer of The Blue America PAC and author of Down With Tyranny) (2:33:55) David Cobb (environmental activist and Green Party Presidential candidate) (2:59:20) Dr. Harriet Fraad (host of "Capitalism Hits Home") (3:30:53) Professor Adnan Husain ("Guerrilla History" and "The Majlis" podcasts) (4:09:53) Professor Mary Anne Cummings (physicist and parks commissioner Aurora, Illinois) (4:33:33) Community Billboard with Dan Frankenberger played by Mr. and Mrs. Brown (4:58:53) Peter B. Collins (Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame) (5:41:55) Professor Mike Steinel (Jazz historian and Dylanologist) (6:09:58) Henry Hakamäki fills us in on the latest Covid variant

This week I have Catherine Liu on the podcast, Professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. We had a great conversation about the PMC. Hope you enjoy it and learn a thing or two.—LW This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/subscribe

Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. We get into the: dynamics of noir, the pseudo superiority and inchoate narcissism of neoliberalism, social dominance, corporate embodiment, the monetization of victimhood, our collective need for catharsis and the Met Gala. Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits. "Virtue Hoarders amplifies a discussion that still needs to be had."—Spiked "Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, argues that the professional-managerial class-working class alliance was doomed from the start for the simple reason that the two classes' interests are fundamentally opposed. "—The Washington Examiner Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the author of The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. Theme music by Joseph E. Martinez of Junius Follow us on social at: Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

TOPICS: What YOU need to know about limited liability companies like Rust Movie Productions, LLC; Alec Baldwin fired Thursday's fatal shot on a non-union set; Protesting safety conditions, IATSE crew members walked and were replaced by scabs just hours before Baldwin accidentally killed his cinematographer; How independent movies are nothing more than money laundering union busting tax scams for the rich and powerful who need to hide money from the government, creditors and investors SPECIAL GUEST: 4:29:07 Catherine Liu (Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine) on her book "Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class" Guests With Time Stamps: (2:19) David Does The News (1:50:27) Dutch Merrick (Propmaster, Armorer, former IATSE president) on film set weapons safety (1:50:27) Roger Nygard (director, editor, and writer) on his new book "Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies" (1:58:00) Jon Ross (comedy writer and gentleman farmer) (2:36:13) Mark Breslin (founder and president of Yuk Yuk's, largest comedy chain in North America) (3:01:11) "I'm On My Way" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel (3:03:47) Howie Klein (founder and treasurer of The Blue America PAC and author of Down With Tyranny) (3:34:48) David Cobb (environmental activist and Green Party Presidential candidate) (3:50:04) Dr. Harriet Fraad (host of "Capitalism Hits Home") (4:29:07) Professor Adnan Husain ("Guerrilla History" and "The Majlis" podcasts) with Catherine Liu (Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine) on her book "Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class" (5:42:21) Professor Mary Anne Cummings (physicist and parks commissioner Aurora, Illinois) (6:09:10) Professor Mike Steinel (Jazz historian and Dylanologist) with Ray Hair (President of the American Federation of Musicians) and Mary Ellen Goree (violinist and elected chair of the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony ) on San Antonio Symphony management's proposal to slash the size of the orchestra from 71 full-time musicians to 42, and cut salaries nearly in half.

From White Zombie in 1932 to Night of the Living Dead in 1967 the history of the idea of the Zombie (they were called "ghouls" in the original 'Night of the Living Dead') has its roots in pre-revolution Haiti. Many of these more modern movies use the imagery of the walking undead to represent more than just scary brain eating monsters. From being a proxy for capitalisms creation of the mindless consumer, to the reality of climate change these movies aren't just jump scares and gore. We'll talk their history, hidden meaning and more with professor of film at the University of California Irvine, Catherine Liu.   About Catherine: Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. She tweets at @bureaucatliu and her views do not reflect those of her employer   You can get Virtue Hoarders here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book.../books/virtue-hoarders   Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-anarchist-e918b00bb13   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions

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  Perhaps no term has caught the imagination of political circles on both the right and the left as the term “Professional Managerial Class” (PMC). The term was first coined by John and Barbara Ehrenreich to describe a caste of middle-class professional elites who increasingly controlled production through their specialist training and educational credentials. While the work of the Ehrenreich's was certainly significant, their hypothesis was not an entirely new one. In the 1940s, the Trotskyist-turn-conservative James Burnham penned the “Managerial Revolution” which hypothesized that society was increasingly falling under the domination of a managerial elite with specialist knowledge.   In recent times, especially in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis and the 2020 COVID pandemic, such analysis and criticism has gain popularity on both the right and left. However, how useful is the term PMC? Are the PMC a coherent social class? And in what ways does the convergence of discourse between both right and left on the “PMC thesis” obfuscate more than it elucidates?   About Ben Burgis: Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor and the author of Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left. He is host of the podcast Give Them An Argument.   Listen to Ben's show, Give Them An Argument: https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1   Read Ben's Work in Jacobin here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/ben-burgis   Watch Derick's Varn Vlog here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ   Watch Derick on Zero Book's Pop the Left here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nFVU7JbT-g&list=PLFad02vA5AOH8vV8rUp6mwkACCa77u2UM     Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal Robert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com

@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the “Professional Managerial Class,” or “PMC,” past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast, leftists frequently invoke the epithet “PMC”--as well as its cousin, “ultra leftist,” or simply “ultra”--in order to shore up class solidarity against capitalist cooptation and ward off allegedly unfeasible political aims. Yet in reality, the Superstructure gang argues, the left PMC trope conceals deeply zero-sum and exclusionary logics that undercut universal emancipation and caretaking. Often stemming from a place of self-loathing or a desire for self-exculpation, such logics not only police leftist discourse according to a univocal workerist ethos, but also violently divide supposedly legitimate from illegitimate horizons of contestation in a manner that reduces universalism to exceptionalism. Tracing the PMC figure’s theoretical and historical roots, the episode culminates with a sustained reading from Karl Marx’s controversial essay, “On the Jewish Question.” Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting.http://flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.comTwitter: @actualflirting

@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the “Professional Managerial Class,” or “PMC,” past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast, leftists frequently invoke the epithet “PMC”--as well as its cousin, “ultra leftist,” or simply “ultra”--in order to shore up class solidarity against capitalist cooptation and ward off allegedly unfeasible political aims. Yet in reality, the Superstructure gang argues, the left PMC trope conceals deeply zero-sum and exclusionary logics that undercut universal emancipation and caretaking. Often stemming from a place of self-loathing or a desire for self-exculpation, such logics not only police leftist discourse according to a univocal workerist ethos, but also violently divide supposedly legitimate from illegitimate horizons of contestation in a manner that reduces universalism to exceptionalism. Tracing the PMC figure’s theoretical and historical roots, the episode culminates with a sustained reading from Karl Marx’s controversial essay, “On the Jewish Question.” Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. http://flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com Twitter: @actualflirting

We’re joined by Catherine Liu (@bureaucatliu) to discuss her wonderful new book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. We find out who the PMC are and where and why they arose. We also bag on them pretty hard.

Dr. Paul talks with Dr. Catherine Liu, professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine and socialist cultural critic, about her recent book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class—commonly referred to as the “PMC.” Drawing from the book, Catherine reveals how the PMC—from academics to social workers—have become the educated elite of modern capitalist society. Though the class presents itself as being a defender of human rights, Catherine contends how this is largely illusory and obscures both their self-serving interests, including the consolidation of power and wealth, as well their rejection of the poor and working class. Finally, speaking to socialism's potential to challenge this, the episode invites us to ask: how can popular struggle be achieved to create a more fair and just society, where all—and not only select classes like the PMC—can live materially comfortable and dignified lives? Learn more about Catherine here. *** CREDITS Producer - Dr. Paul Salvatori Writer & Host - Dr. Paul Salvatori Sound Editor - Peter Bull Music - Dr. Paul Salvatori Photo - Los Angeles Review of Books    

Exploramos a presença da classe dos profissionais liberais e administradores (os tais PMCs) dentro da luta de classes segundo teorias de Nicos Poulantzas, John e Barbara Ehrenreich. Este episódio é parte dois da série sobre a classe média. ⚪ BIBLIOGRAFIA CONSULTADA/CITADA John Stuart Mill. Principles of Political Economy. Longmans Green, 1865, p. 26 em diante. Catherine Liu. Virtue Hoarders: the case against the Professional Managerial Class. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2021. Richard Hyman. White-collar workers and theories of class. In: Hyman, R.; Price, R. The New Working Class? White-collar workers and their organizations. A Reader. London: Macmillan Press, 1983, p. 3-45. Barbara Ehrenreich; John Ehrenreich. The professional-managerial class. Radical America, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 7-32. Barbara Ehrenreich; John Ehrenreich. The New Left and the professional-managerial class. Radical American, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 7-24. Nicos Poulantzas. As classes sociais no capitalismo de hoje. RJ: Zahar, 1978. ⚪ Quer apoiar nosso trabalho? Confira o catálogo da nossa editora | https://aetia.lojaintegrada.com.br/

Matt Christman and Sean KB bring our story of suburbia up to the present moment, when the periphery is in crisis and urban areas are suffering late-stage gentrification: How was Los Angeles the archetypal American city? Who developed suburbia and why? Which class interests are upheld by the primacy of real estate in American political economy? And whither suburban life in the 21st century? All this and more along with an analysis of that class fraction everyone's talking about these days: the PrOfEsSiOnAL MaNaGeRiAL CLaSs! Listen to the full episode and Part I at: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Outro: CSNY - Our House