The current political Left sees workers and the threat of a working class consciousness as an asset in a high stakes negotiation with Capital about the role and power of the PMCs. The Left, made up of PMC strivers, aren’t happy with the growing gap between them and Capital. 1/

The original deal was that PMCs invent, operate and manage the tools of extraction and coercion needed to feed the insatiable hunger of Capital to feed off workers and in return the PMCs will be rewarded with a bigger share of the pie. 2/

This deal was contingent on the fact that the PMCs view their interests materially and politically as separate from the working class so that they can be entrusted with the increasingly sophisticated machinery of coercion being developed. 3/

With uncertainty and dissatisfaction hitting the millennial PMC generation as they watch the growing gap between themselves and the rich, they have decided to reopen negotiations with Capital. “Give us what we are due or we will empower workers to wrest power from you”. 4/

So “workers” for the current political Left aren’t agents being actively empowered so they can pursue their own self-interest. They are a hypothetical threat being waved in the faces of Capital at the negotiating table. 5/

Luckily for Capital, none of the people agitating for a renegotiation have any power over the real machinery of coercion nor do they understand how it works. They’re a bunch of English lit and comparative religion majors from liberal arts colleges. 6/

Instead of trying to give workers power that rises to the occasion or can match that of the neoliberal machine, they have decided, based on their backgrounds in applied Harry Potter studies to empower workers by making them good and morally righteous. 7/

As you can imagine, the negotiations aren’t going well for the PMC activists. The workers aren’t interested in the social and cultural flair that the strivers have made into a moral framework by which to attain salvation. As far as Capital is concerned they couldn’t be happier 8/

What more can Capital ask for than a political opposition that is just waiting for you to throw it a crumb but is so incompetent in making their demands that their plan for workers is to make them adhere to a strict moral code that is itself contemptuous of workers. 9/

These reflections where inspired partially by the latest what’s left episode. @tereseaimee @MoustacheClubUS @Tinkzorg and Angela Nagle are all great here. /end https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/the-first-congress-of-problematic-red-browns-w-angela-nagle-malcom-kyeyune