/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?

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  What would Lasch's ghost be telling us now?

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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  Is vice-signalling replacing virtue-signalling?

  
  

Links:

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

  
  


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  It’s Our Fault, Dustin Guastella, Damage

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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  The Techno-Populist Convergence, Alex Hochuli, Compact