This event is hosted in conjunction with Bungacast

Dan will be joined by Catherine Liu and George Hoare to discuss the rise of the professional managerial class. A defining aspect of neoliberalism has been the inordinate growth of the ‘professional managerial class’ who have played a prominent role in British politics over the last 20 years. While other professions have been decimated by the various financial crises of recent decades the managerial class has only grown. Liu, one of the first thinkers to write on this phenomena, defines them as a group which loyally serves capitalism while insisting on their own progressive heroism. Dan, Catherine and George will talk about the ways in which ‘professional managerial’ values have slipped into, and nullified, contemporary left-wing discourses around class and how these tendencies might be critiqued from a left perspective.