Like my base assumption is that she's wrong. If you think the PMC is an actual class then you're also only one step away from 🤡

https://twitter.com/jacob__posts/status/1367492298783744001?s=19

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I maintain my position that the PMC is not a real class distinct from the proletariat or the bourgeoise, but it is a real phenomenon of class collaboration among various subclasses of the main two.

    • snackage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      :geordi-yes:

      a transitionary contingent phenomenon.

    • rolly6cast [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I don't think it works as coherent class collaboration either. There are tendencies and heavy similarities in affect and cultural aesthetics and speech patterns, but it is still not a matter of class collaboration for that to be the case. There is no serious methodology to induct nurses, for example, into the ranks of the managerial positions in the sense of managing firing and hiring of workers, or any consistent alliance between them and the rest of the richer professionals who are not proletariat (nurses vary heavily in political, local union activity, and voting habits, despite having a shared professional background with liberals). Petty bourgeois, and a focus on the change of management and managerial policies after finance shifts in the 70s, is a better frame of analysis.

      • TimeCubeEvangelist [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I think you're wrong. Managing the health of wage slaves is managerial praxis, where do you think the opiate epidemic started? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing#As_a_profession

        • rolly6cast [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          That's not what managerial praxis means, it isn't when you manage people's health. Your manager does not care about your health at work. A parent who cares about one's health is now a manager too from this line, or a daycare worker. It's about the role in wage labor, not whether they vaguely have some professional authority in interacting with you in one aspect of your life. Opiate epidemic doesn't change that, especially when the vast majority of bribes went out to physicians.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      It's basically a conflation between sections of the Labour Aristocracy (dude Bro Code Monkeys) and a merger of both the Proletarian and Bourgois sections of the professional intelligentsia (the latter of which barely exists now outside the lanyard types, since doctors and engineers and lawyers are mostly proletarianised in terms of relationship to capital these days).