Identity politics, standpoint epistemology, and all the frustrating and broad movement-terminating tendencies of “the Left” today are mere symptoms of a deeper structural issue: The political construction of the PMC to undermine the possibility of broad-based universal emancipatory structural transformation.
This course is an introduction to thinking about what it means to be “PMC” and the ways that the PMC functions to divide the working class and exploit labor power in the service of capital. Join Dave and Elton as they teach a survey course on the main works that have contributed to understanding “the professional managerial class.” This course includes eight lectures, four reflection assignments, and one final project.
THIS COURSE IS SHORT and its difficulty level is set at BEGINNER.
What you get with enrollment: Access to the lectures, exegetical readings, excerpts, syllabus, and, most importantly, the ongoing discussion forum where you get to connect with people who have taken this course in the past, as well as fellow travelers on this path in the future.
Be advised: When you register with this website, and when you purchase the tickets, the verification email, as well as the email with the link, WILL go to your spam folder. Such is the cost of doing shit underground.
This course comes with four tiers of access:
Tier 1: Access to the course modules, lectures, syllabus, and discussion forum.
Tier 2: Everything from Tier 1 + Access to special guest lectures and longer-term access to the site (long-term buy in to the course forum and lectures).
Tier 3: Everything from Tiers 1 & 2 + Direct constructive critical feedback from Dave (via voice messages and/or marked up reviews of your assignments).
Tier 4: Everything from Tiers 1-3 + (1) Access to any of the live and recorded exegetical reading sessions of this text that Dave will do + (2) Two 1-on-1 Zoom calls with Dave. The first is to be scheduled while the course is ongoing, and the second is to be conducted after the course is over, for a constructive criticism session dealing with your final project.
