/487/ Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? ft. Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost
On what is next for 'PMC theory'
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The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost joins us to unpick the conjuncture: as the Trump administration makes cuts and seeks to do away with progressives in bureaucracies, where does that leave the left-wing critique of the PMC?
What would Lasch's ghost be telling us now?
Is the PMC a class? Is it distinct people? Or is it more like procedures, and ways of thinking?
Is woke over? Will the MANGOs (media, academia, NGOs) carry on?
Can the PMC still advance oppositional politics…
The skinny
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