Catherine Liu - Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class

<p>Catherine Liu is the author of <em>Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.&nbsp;</em></p> <p>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. <em>Virtue Hoarders</em> is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.</p> <p>"<em>Virtue Hoarders</em> amplifies a discussion that still needs to be had."—<em>Spiked</em></p> <p>"<em>Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class</em>, 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. "—<em>The Washington Examiner</em></p> <p>Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the author of The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.</p> <p>Theme music by Joseph E. Martinez of Junius</p> <p>Follow us on social at: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/WakeIslandPod">@WakeIslandPod&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wakeislandpod/">@wakeislandpod</a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/wak