Episode #066 // The Professional Managerial Class // with Catherine Liu

 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, Buch

Sigfried 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)