1. Very interesting @IChotiner interview with Michael Lind about Lind's attempt to craft a high-brow Trumpism (although that's perhaps not how Lind would describe it).
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7. So why is Lind wrongly citing Burnham rather than the 1970s neo-cons (Kristol, Moynihan) who theorized New Class Because Lind wants to jump on Trump bandwagon & Burnham is (via Samuel Francis) much admired by paleo-con Trumpists. It's all marketing, not intellectual history
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8. Anyways, you can read the Lind interview here and keep in mind that what Lind is saying about Burnham is -- to use the politest possible term -- bullshit.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/michael-lind-on-populism-racism-and-restoring-democracy …
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4. (Revised) 4. Here's Burnham in 1978 (reviewing Alfred Chandler's great Visible Hand) arguing that the managerial elite are the people who actually run the large corporations, not novelists and media people!pic.twitter.com/7rZawlUrJB
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9. One way to think about all this is that a lot of New Class theory (and, on the left, PMC theory) is about blaming the ills of oligarchy on a subset of the junior partners of oligarchy. It's the socialism of foolish pundits.https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1225509036659007488 …
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One not-unreasonable argument is that consulting and law are the new class's economic expression.
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I think Lind would happily concede that he's adapting Burnham's terminology to different circumstances: The age of Harvard, McKinsey/Goldman and Big Law as interlocking directorates rather than the age of IBM.
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When you talk about "professional managerial elites" you sound like Pol Pot. His decision to largely eradicate it had a horrible impact on Cambodia after his reign of terror ended.
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