An Interview: Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) The Chris Hedges Report [View all]

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This presents a potentially useful analysis (one rooted in recognizing a certain lack of addressing the voters' immediate, lived economic conditions) of how the last election was lost and encourages refocusing on grassroots organizing instead of remaining tied to a wealthy donor class.

An open-access version of this author's book is available on the University of Minnesota Press's website (see below):

Virtue Hoarders
The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

Catherine Liu

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-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.

Open access version: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/virtue-hoarders

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912253/virtue-hoarders/