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Confronting Capitalism: The PMC Isn’t Going Away

Confronting Capitalism: The PMC Isn’t Going Away

Update: 2025-08-13
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The “professional managerial class” has become a staple of political debate on the Left.


In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber explains why the “PMC” is better understood as a heterogeneous layer within capitalism rather than a distinct class, how and why the middle strata have expanded, and what has pushed so many professionals toward anti-capitalist politics. While skeptical of the PMC as a precise analytical category, Chibber argues that the term still captures something real about one of the most politically influential groups in modern America.


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Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, and published by Jacobin. Music by Zonkey.

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Confronting Capitalism: The PMC Isn’t Going Away

Confronting Capitalism: The PMC Isn’t Going Away