Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber The PMC Isn’t Going Away
Aug 13, 2025
40:50
The “professional managerial class” has become a staple of political debate on the Left.
In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber explains why the “PMC” is better understood as a heterogeneous layer within capitalism rather than a distinct class, how and why the middle strata have expanded, and what has pushed so many professionals toward anti-capitalist politics. While skeptical of the PMC as a precise analytical category, Chibber argues that the term still captures something real about one of the most politically influential groups in modern America.
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