@narylis the professional-managerial class isn’t really what i’m talking about though; e.g. a professional speaker who gets paid lots of money to write books and headline conferences is not managerial in any sense of the word, and “professional” only in a loose, vibes-based sense (conference headlining and writing both are clearly trades). however, having a member of the proletariat headlining your conference of bourgeoisie and bourgeois-enforcers (managers cops etc) is a social faux-pas (because the proletariat is too low-class to be present in such a space), so there is an active effort to produce individuals who LOOK bourgeois (have bourgeois lifestyles etc) even as they perform literally-proletarian trades

perhaps i am just disagreeing with “modern leftists” here and think that “professionals” and “managers” are NOT collapsible into a single category (and protest the use of the word “professional” as a category of leftist analysis in general), but even explicitly allowing for and setting aside “professional” fields such as office workers, educators, and lawyers, it feels like there is something very different going on here compared to those situations