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@moltopopulare joins co-hosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo to problematize unquestioned leftist critiques of the \u201cProfessional Managerial Class,\u201d or \u201cPMC,\u201d past and present. As exemplified by a recent episode of The Dig podcast, leftists frequently invoke the epithet \u201cPMC\u201d--as well as its cousin, \u201cultra leftist,\u201d or simply \u201cultra\u201d--in order to shore up class solidarity against capitalist cooptation and ward off allegedly unfeasible political aims. Yet in reality, the Superstructure gang argues, the left PMC trope conceals deeply zero-sum and exclusionary logics that undercut universal emancipation and caretaking. Often stemming from a place of self-loathing or a desire for self-exculpation, such logics not only police leftist discourse according to a univocal workerist ethos, but also violently divide supposedly legitimate from illegitimate horizons of contestation in a manner that reduces universalism to exceptionalism. Tracing the PMC figure\u2019s theoretical and historical roots, the episode culminates with a sustained reading from Karl Marx\u2019s controversial essay, \u201cOn the Jewish Question.\u201d

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Music: \u201cYum\u201d from \u201cThis Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me\u201d EP by flirting.
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