Virtue Hoarders
The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
$35.53
- Paperback
90 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2021
Summary
A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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-servin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517912253 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1517912253 |
| Author: | Catherine Liu |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 90 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 127mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First |
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Critics Review
“If a meaningful intellectual current does emerge from the wreckage of contemporary capitalism, it may well begin from the demystification of PMC liberal mores.”-Conter
“Virtue Hoarders argues that the professional-managerial class-working class alliance was doomed from the start for the simple reason that the two classes’ interests are fundamentally opposed.”-The Washington Examiner
“Virtue Hoarders amplifies a discussion that still needs to be had.”-Spiked
“Lui’s argument is thorough, well researched, and saturated with supporting evidence.”-Rhizomes
“A quick, fun read, polemicising against views which are currently dominant in the US academic left and mainstream media, and characterising these views as expressing the interests of the ‘professional managerial class’ - or ‘PMC’ - as opposed to those of the working class.”-Weekly Worker
“Delicious.”-Current Affairs
“Like all good polemics [Virtue Hoarders] is a romp: lively, fun to read.”-Jeff Noonan
“Thoroughly enjoyable.”-Damage Magazine
“Liu’s comments in Virtue Hoarders on politics seem spot-on.”-The Independent Review
“Liu, a professor at UC Irvine, draws from a well of experience, humor, and rage to show us how the PMC’s quest for class domination continues to unfold in our gilded age.”-Los Angeles Review of Books
Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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