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