cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3190259
To me they're like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in "2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?" in his writing "The State and Revolution"
Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as "the only option", who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits
However, they don't own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists
On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises..
Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they're pretty handy
I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them
Note: I know a bit about the bazingo techbro culture that the PMC is associated with, please don't criticize them solely on those vibes...
Technocratic management techniques often serve to obfuscate and justify the real world impacts. You'd need to do a lot of re-education
Also most of those techniques, at least in the IT sector, are pseudoscientific bullshit based on nothing but nice sounding buzzwords.
Did I overexaggerate their role's necessity or something?
Also, I'm pretty sure I said something about their privileges necessarily being reduced... (i.e. high salaries, stock options, and work) from the previous ancien regime