24 - On the PMC Question by Superstructure
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@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the “Professional Managerial Class,” or “PMC,” past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast, leftists frequently invoke the epithet “PMC”--as well as its cousin, “ultra leftist,” or simply “ultra”--in order to shore up class solidarity against capitalist cooptation and ward off allegedly unfeasible political aims. Yet in reality, the Superstructure gang argues, the left PMC trope conceals deeply zero-sum and exclusionary logics that undercut universal emancipation and caretaking. Often stemming from a place of self-loathing or a desire for self-exculpation, such logics not only police leftist discourse according to a univocal workerist ethos, but also violently divide supposedly legitimate from illegitimate horizons of contestation in a manner that reduces universalism to exceptionalism. Tracing the PMC figure’s theoretical and historical roots, the episode culminates with a sustained reading from Karl Marx’s controversial essay, “On the Jewish Question.” Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. http://flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com Twitter: @actualflirting

All Hegelian Podcasts Are Radlib Nonce-sense. AHPARN

It's obvious why these people are uninterested in talking about the alienation of workers, or why they whine about the "hypocrisy" of PMC people criticizing their own class. Academic Marxist philosophy is a glowie CIA funded program for fake-Marxists, they're not interested in having solidarity except with each other. These nerds are paid to ignore and mystify structural violence, why wouldn't they also ignore their role in doing violence? Its easier to instead whine about how oppressed they are by being called Karens and how frightened they are by "populist" rhetoric

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/liberals/lectureporn-the-vulgar-art-of-liberal-narcissism/

I turned this bullshit off half way, but apparently they talk about Marx's historical materialist take on jewishness? Which is ironic since these class traitors did not do any of that in the first part of the ep. These fucking idealist Hegelians rambling about Jews is probably literally the least valuable contribution to the discourse I can imagine lol

  • Steely_Gaige [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This show had Matt on once, I think the episode was called Close Encounters with the Dirtbag Left (or similar). I found the episode fascinating in a weird way, but based on the two episodes I've heard, your analysis seems very fitting. It came off as esoteric self-aggrandizing weird shit that I barely understood.

    It's like on the surface their worldview is geared towards helping workers, but they're like MMT people. And that comes off to me as a very top-down approach, where the workers are still alienated from the process and the rich are still allowed to flourish?

    I may be misinterpreting it. Like I said, I didn't really get it.

    I have no clue who the audience of this shit is, it's so inaccessible. I'm like, educated or whatever and I had a very difficult time following their thoughts.

    • el_principito [he/him,none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I found out about it through Matt’s feature also.

      Matt literally exhausts himself in that episode. Homie keeps up with their stupid verbiage and can’t get them to admit it’s all about praxis.

      :matt: