The US Professional Managerial Class (PMC) Meets The Long Knives

The Long Knives Are Out For The Non-Conforming PMC

The US oligarchy has moved to a much more authoritarian orientation, but it has a problem that the courtier class (referred to as the PMC by many commentators) has for many decades been inculcated with the ideology required to support the previous orientation. This is the “hegemonic culture” that Gramsci identified as being needed to efficiently and effectively rule a modern capitalist state with a literate population that also possesses freedom of movement and occupation. The embedding of a “false consciousness” within the minds of the population that both supports oligarch rule and obfuscates the real basis of power, working with coercion (e.g. the need to earn a living to feed oneself) and violence (e.g. imprisonment if one strays too far outside the allowable political lines) to discipline the general population into subservience.

The PMC which is spread across many sectors, such as academia, media, corporate and institutional management and the legal profession, is critical to the maintenance of the hegemonic culture and is therefore always the most brainwashed with it. Believing that the performative elections make a real difference, that the academy is all about the search for knowledge rather than predominantly a co-creator and inculcator of the hegemonic culture, that the law is somehow “fair”, that their good work can really “make a difference”, that liberalism isn’t really all about the powerful having the freedom to exploit the less powerful. And most of all, that the PMC really rules society; perhaps the biggest lie of all that has been swallowed by so many even “leftist” commentators.

But the PMC does not rule society, the oligarchy does; the PMC are just the well paid and looked after courtiers of the oligarchy. And now the oligarchy needs a new PMC, one which is aligned with their new orientation that is at least partially removing the liberal glove from the authoritarian fist. There are many in the PMC that are pure sociopathic careerists, who will always serve whoever is in power in whatever way necessary. We see them quickly picking up the security services and other state funding and positions to push such things as the gaslighting of “disinformation” (Big Brother is telling the truth, we need to ban those people who lie about Big Brother and make things up!), and crying the crocodile tears for the Venezuelan people so subjugated by the nasty Maduro (yeah, its not really the bone crushing sanctions, and constant foreign and domestic elite sabotage that brought Venezuela to its knees!). But many in the PMC truly believed in the now outdated hegemonic culture and in their own “ethics”.

It is these that must be cleansed from the PMC, or forced into silence and submission if they cannot be flushed (e.g. tenured professors). That’s why project 2025 included a major downsizing of the administrative state, to facilitate a major cleansing and disciplining of those that remained. The Trump administration has dutifully followed this plan. In addition, started under the Biden administration, the universities have been targeted to force a climate of fear through the use of the bogus “anti-semitism”; with Deans who do not “get the message” quickly being removed. Let’s remember also that university boards of governance are packed with members and representatives of the oligarchy, and half of social science academic funding is provided by plutocratic foundations (e.g. Rockefeller, Ford). Under the Trump administration, government research funding has been used against universities that “do not get the message”.

With respect to the media, even some of the most imperial and oligarch serving journalists and commentators are not properly aligned with the new oligarch authoritarianism. The Zionist oligarch owned CBS (part of Paramount) has been take over by an even more extreme Zionist oligarch, and CBS News turned over to the extremist mouthpiece Bari Weiss. It looks like Warner Brothers Discovery, which includes CNN, is being handed over to Netflix. The journalists in other networks such as ABC (owned by Walt Disney, headed by a Jewish Zionist CEO) and NBC (owned by Comcast which is controlled by the Jewish Zionist Roberts oligarch family) have been served notice that they need to “get with the program” or else. The Pentagon has put in place new restrictive rules on journalists, who have rolled over after some performative complaining.

The PMC will be cleansed and subjugated as it is simply the governance and management tool of the capitalist oligarchy that rules the United States. Many members of the PMC will come face to face with the truth that they were never the rulers and are readily expendable if they don’t “get with the new program”.

The extremist actions of the current administration have also driven many members of the PMC to resign, which ends up facilitating the oligarch policy of cleansing the PMC. One less misaligned government attorney, regulator or official is a step forward for the policy, whether the official is fired, downsized or leaves of their own volition. The oligarchy has moved on, and the PMC will be cleansed to align with their new orientation. Just like the German oligarchy had Hitler cleanse the SA when it had served its purpose and become problematic; having bought into the false Nazi rhetoric against the bosses. In some ways, the SA was a German version of MAGA with a membership predominantly from working class and petit bourgeois backgrounds that really did want to take down the “bosses”. When push came to shove, Hitler chose the oligarchy over Rohm - a man that he had spent 20 years closely working with.

Trump is doing the oligarchy’s work, if he wasn’t he would be stopped. His is the act of a showman, keeping the focus away from those that have power over the script, the choice of the actors, and the underlying objectives. This may be the “Years of the Long Knives” with much less explicit violence, but it will serve the same purpose. The oligarchy has moved on and needs to flush the previously useful tools that have now become problematic. It is the only way that they can reliably create a new hegemonic culture, more explicitly backed with coercion and violence.