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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      2. One of Lind's moves is to draw a contrast between the managerial elite and the working class. He defines the managerial elite broadly as a matter of college education or higher. He cites mid-century theorist James Burnham as source for this concept.pic.twitter.com/BU9mtFYybZ

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      3. Not to pull a Marshal McLuhan in Annie Hall, but as it happens I'm one of the few people alive who has read everything James Burnham wrote. And I can assure you he explicitly rejected the Lind idea that the managerial elite was defined by culture & education.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      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, notpic.twitter.com/UFSPbRrPoP

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      5. Lind: cultural shapers & post-college are managerial elite. Burnham: “Who hires and fires whom? How many men can Norman Mailer or Walter Cronkite set in motion when he picks up the telephone , compared to Harold Geneen or What’s-His-Name at the top of IBM? Come now.”

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      6. Burnham, as befits an ex-Marxist admired by Trotsky himself, had a far more materialist & economic understanding of managerial elite power than Lind. Lind's ideas aren't from Burnham but reheated 1970s neo-con "New Class" discourse.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Feb 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Mike Konczal

          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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          Mike KonczalVerified account @rortybomb
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          Sure, just trying to quantify the "upper-middle-professional-managerial-class are partners in oligarchy even as they are not themselves oligarchs" thesis.
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        2. Bec‏ @beccanalia 6 Feb 2020
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 6 Feb 2020
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          Namaste, you can read it here: Thread by @HeerJeet: 1. Very interesting @IChotiner interview with Michael Lind about Lind's attempt to craft a… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1225503178508177408.html …. Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

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        1. DIALECTIC DAD‏ @uhmahhdialectic 6 Feb 2020
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          Everywhere I’ve ever worked or been a contractor for the primary sense I got is that the managerial class is tall

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