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0 pointsdragonwriter3y ago0 comments

> pmc and workers aren’t allies

The so-called “professional managerial class” is (1) not a class, and (2) a grouping that cuts across the proletariat and petit bourgeiosie (and is largely contained within the intelligentsia component of those classes.)

(Its basically an American-Left resurrection of the Leninist critique of the behavior of the intelligentsia, divorced from the theory in which that critique was grounded which recognized that the intelligentsia were not a genuine classes because their relation to the economy was predominantly as wage labor hired by capital–and thus proletarian–but occasionally petit bourgeois; its kind of weird that its invocation seemed to fade after the 1970s but has become popular again in the last few years.)

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pydry3y ago

PMC is pretty much exclusively bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie.

The exercise of control over capital/means of production (what defines PMC) isnt exactly the same thing as ownership but it's closer to that than only being able to offer labor.

It's not uncommon for it to be better. PMCs (e.g. C level execs) of major corporations a often make out better than shareholders.

dragonwriterOP3y ago

> PMC is pretty much exclusively bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie

As usually defined (where by the 2010s it accounted for more than a third of American jobs), it's not. It's mostly proletarians, a bit of it is in the petit bourgeois, and a numerically irrelevant or even smaller numerically irrelevant slice is in the haut bourgeoisie (it's not clear to me if the upper end of the usual understanding includes the haut bourgeois who incidentally have the kind of job usually ascribed to the “class” but for whom it is not particular job reflects rather than is in any way necessary to the power they exercise over capital, but it makes little difference either way.)

The whole purpose of the designation, within Leftist discourse, is to identify and growing (even at the time first identified) segment of the wage-labor force as class enemies of the proletariat by inventing a new class label to apply to them, so as to justify why they aren't targets for solidarity efforts.

> PMCs (e.g. C level execs) of major corporations a often make out better than shareholders.

C-level execs of major corps aren't typical members of the PMC “class” by a long shot.

wahnfrieden3y ago

this was a pretty interesting recent read on pmc https://www.amazon.ca/Virtue-Hoarders-against-Professional-M...

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class - University of Minnesota Press

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