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Finally read one of these PMC articles. While it seems basically right intuitively, it feels mushy in the same way most discussion of the "middle class" does. Has anyone seen any more rigorous class analysis pieces on the PMC? https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-characterless-opportunism-of-the-managerial-class/">https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/t...
This piece on the PMC is much stronger, but as it turns out I have a lot of thoughts on the PMC discourse 
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What is the "professional managerial class" anyway? The n+1 article is right in pointing out that class isn& #39;t narrowly definable by job titles or income level, class is defined in terms of relations, but in practice I& #39;m seeing PMC used pretty carelessly
Does PMC mean someone who hasn& #39;t yet been absolutely left in the dust by this system? Because that just sounds like more mushy, "middle class" talk. Someone& #39;s income doesn& #39;t tell you their real relation to power, and what income level means what is also totally unclear.
Or is it that these so called PMC folks have tepid Liberal or even Right wing politics? Because that could just as easily be false consciousness, and if we wrote off all of the workers who fall victim to that we& #39;d get absolutely nowhere.
The PMC question is important because it& #39;s very clear that there is a sort of class of bureaucrats for capitalism that are in real conflict with workers without themselves being capitalists who don& #39;t need to sell their labor, live on the surplus created by others, etc
But PMC discourse is dangerous if we use it to explain why organizing is hard. Are there are bunch of Liberals in your socialist group because they& #39;re part of the PMC, or is it because they haven& #39;t yet come to understand this system and their place in it?
The examples given of people in the PMC - adjuncts, nurses, teachers, journalists, tech workers - seems off the mark and kind of telling. These are positions that the working class perceives as somewhat better off - but that& #39;s not what class means.
Nowhere is there mention of property or wealth managers, financial advisors, university or hospital administrators, political strategists, etc. People who aren& #39;t as visible to workers because they exist in direct service to the ruling class, making their interests into reality.
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I& #39;d have to read more but I& #39;m not entirely sure I agree with the assessment that the PMC is disappearing. What& #39;s disappearing is workers with some degree of security and the possibility of upward mobility -
but there& #39;s also a necessarily growing number of these less visible positions managing the interests of the ruling class, since the ruling class has amassed more wealth and power than basically ever before.
