Virtue Hoarders
The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
MANIFOLD EDITION
THE JACOBIN SHOW: WHAT IS THE PROFESSIONAL-MANAGERIAL CLASS AND HOW IS IT STANDING IN THE WAY OF ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION?
A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
Author Catherine Liu shows how Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers who labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling stand in the way of social justice and economic redistribution. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.
Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.
Virtue Hoarders amplifies a discussion that still needs to be had.
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