/487/ Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? ft. Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

On what is next for 'PMC theory'

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The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost joins us to unpick the conjuncture: as the Trump administration makes cuts and seeks to do away with progressives in bureaucracies, where does that leave the left-wing critique of the PMC?

• What would Lasch's ghost be telling us now?

• Is the PMC a class? Is it distinct people? Or is it more like procedures, and ways of thinking?

• Is woke over? Will the MANGOs (media, academia, NGOs) carry on?

• Can the PMC still advance oppositional politics or it hopeless compromised?

• What will be the effect on AI doing away with professional class jobs?

• Is vice-signalling replacing virtue-signalling?

Links:

• Death of a Yuppie Dream, Barbara Ehrenreich, RosaLux (pdf)

• It’s Our Fault, Dustin Guastella, Damage

• Trump’s purge of the professionals, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

• This obsession with a ‘new elite’ hides the real roots of power, Kenan Malik, The Guardian

• The Techno-Populist Convergence, Alex Hochuli, Compact