The Managerial Revolution

1. In 1941, James Burnham published “The Managerial Revolution,” which boldly asserted that Capitalism was not only dead, but destined to be replaced by Managerialism- or “rule by managers.” pic.twitter.com/LOZbuFXHMO

— Lafayette Lee (@OrangePartisan) May 13, 2021

Managerialism

The managerial elite run the world. This isn’t conspiracy theory. Anyone with a little curiosity can understand how this works and how it came to be. Listen to @emeriticus and I discuss this on our podcast, the CaudilloCast: https://t.co/sTWerXdNgc

— José Alberto Niño (@JoseAlNino) March 24, 2021

The Politicization of Science by the Elites

“Science” https://t.co/uRWWbMamRD

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) February 4, 2021

Ed Welsch on James Burnham

A show you need to hear, on a book you need to read: James Burham's "The Managerial Revolution."

His theory of power still explains the West-- and particularly the DC Beltway-- better than any other.

With @EdwardWelsch from @ChroniclesMag https://t.co/33mQ1GKcLz

— Jeff Deist (@jeffdeist) December 23, 2020

Interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon on December 14

Another confirmed conversation, this time with Dr Mike Yeadon, former vice-president of Pfizer, and joined by Nick Hudson of PANDA.

Bound to trigger alarmists, "fact-checkers", and Alan Winde.https://t.co/dptJcu1JCU@NickHudsonCT @MichaelYeadon3 @PanData19

— Jerm (@mynameisjerm) December 3, 2020

Who's Going to Take Vermeule's Position?

And say yes?

Should unelected officials have the power to interpret or effectively create legislation? On Dec. 11 at 2:00 p.m., Emmett McGroarty discusses unwinding the administrative state with @Kara_Mc_Rollins (@NCLAlegal) and Anthony Campau (@Heritage): https://t.co/sAEq2A6HOX pic.twitter.com/hlmtIII3xT

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) December 2, 2020

Using Problems to Consolidate Power

"The coup currently being conducted by the global elite has been carefully planned and prepared over several decades"#GreatResethttps://t.co/FNP9JWngBb

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) December 2, 2020

All we have to do to restart economy is rewire everything about our behavior, value, finance & ethics to decarbonize civilization under new world regime of central bankers & digital currencies as outlined by WEF’s Green Horizon Summit from Nov 9-10, 2020.https://t.co/CzL2Wdl4Hv

— 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russia-USA Federation President ROMANA (@RomanaVolny) November 26, 2020

And I’m delighted to speak alongside... Professor Klaus Schwab who ‘wrote the book’ on the 4th Industrial Revolution. Your work, bringing together as you do all the best minds on planet, has informed what we are doing & I’m delighted to work with you.https://t.co/73F6R2rEqD

— 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russia-USA Federation President ROMANA (@RomanaVolny) November 23, 2020

Highly recommend the latest from @elleprovocateur, who meticulously deconstructs the Great Resets claims of creating a more "sustainable" & "inclusive" future and shows the hell they will create if we do nothing to stop themhttps://t.co/7NIWqiewIr

— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) November 28, 2020

It is mesmerizing to see how @elleprovocateur makes us see the destructive nature of the upcoming digital enslavement with such a clarity.https://t.co/fUUJpd36sz

— Hiroyuki Hamada (@HiroyukiHamada) November 29, 2020

A very good interview with Patrick Wood, @StopTechnocracy #GreatResisthttps://t.co/NUsK3oU4GF

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) November 29, 2020

"The globalist technocracy is using the COVID-19 pandemic to bypass democratic accountability, override opposition, accelerate their agenda and to impose it on the public against our will" - Dr Joseph Mercola#GreatResethttps://t.co/WdRd8BCcoR

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) December 2, 2020

Resistance Podcast 143: Answers on Vaccination Concerns w/ Fr. Ripperger – Sensus Fidelium #CatholicTwitter ⁦@chesterbelloc3⁩ #vaccination #CovidVaccine https://t.co/29LqFyHkKE

— Sensus Fidelium (@Sensus_Fidelium) December 2, 2020

"Here’s why you should skip the Covid Vaccine" - Mike Whitney https://t.co/j7iShou8y8

— The Unz Review (@UnzReview) November 30, 2020

Mike Whitney

Charles Hugh Smith on the Great Reset

The Great Reset is a perfect example of this insanity: "now that we've destroyed the planet with our private jets, greed and corruption, give us even more power over you." https://t.co/RiKHAa2v3W

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) November 23, 2020

The problem with this "brand" of magical thinking is that stripped of self-serving PR, the world of 2019 was an autocratic kleptocracy stripmining the planet to enrich the few https://t.co/RiKHAa2v3W

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) November 23, 2020

https://t.co/8AL3SXLXIR

— Pres.Elects mr.&mrs fulton🇺🇸 (@JohnFul01890271) November 22, 2020

Another NGO working in league with the WEF?

Pathways to Socially Inclusive #Decarbonisation—A recent #COP26Universities network briefing sets out why the transition to a #netzero economy must be inclusive—and what policy tools are available; co-authored by CUSP researcher @MaritHammond >> https://t.co/ELfa2y6PN0

— CUSP (@CUSP_uk) November 23, 2020

This one definitely is.

Here is @NEF's winter plans for jobs, incomes and communities to ensure a green & just recovery so that we #BuildBackBetter: https://t.co/websDlFpL8

— Tiffany Lam (@tiffany_frances) November 23, 2020

Today @NEF is launching the ‘Winter Plan for Jobs, Incomes and Communities’ for the #BuildBackBetter coalition. It's fantastic that they're calling on @govuk to protect jobs & income, & create jobs. This aligns with our aims at RORA & @BigIssue #roar4RORA https://t.co/esIwjgHkUh

— John Bird (@johnbirdswords) November 23, 2020

The Deep State

America is a democracy in name only. Take it from the mouths of the managers themselves. https://t.co/CgnStPPs6f pic.twitter.com/yOCerj7uT7

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 21, 2020

True Leadership?

Doubtful. More like a counterfeit that is akin to being a presumptuous functionary.

A primer for newly elected Councilmember’s in CA. My book recommendations to help with your learning curve. https://t.co/V7XKwzdkiF pic.twitter.com/hFBuv4DmZA

— Michele (@Michele714) November 9, 2020

Related:

It was a pleasure to be on the show. @StrongTowns has been a refuge for me over the past few years as a non-partisan, local-focused network figuring out how to make their communities stronger from human, fiscal, and environmental perspectives #triplebottomline #positiveaction https://t.co/2dupaSYs4E

— Chelsea Lawson (Ursaner) (@pwnerchelsea) November 6, 2020

Bottum-Up Revolution Podcast

Technobureaucracy as a Tool of the State and the Oligarchy

"If you missed political scientist Jon Askonas’s New Atlantis piece on tech tyranny, now is the time to read it," writes @roddreher today: https://t.co/zXZ60WJz02

Here it is: https://t.co/MeWGdv9gi8

— The New Atlantis (@tnajournal) November 6, 2020

The New Atlantic

A Defense of the Administrative State

Is the Modern Administrative State Irredeemable?
by Adrian Vermeule & Cass Sunsteinhttps://t.co/9h1xypvXAl

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) October 27, 2020

Sunstein and Vermeule

Liberals Uphold the Technobureaucratic State. Who Knew?

"Democracy means rule by ordinary people. But liberalism as it is today is often an expression of expert rule. It holds that the people should simply follow the directions of their betters. Trump is a radical break from that".@ToryAnarchist on democracyhttps://t.co/AN2yG514KX

— spiked (@spikedonline) October 26, 2020

This Is not Actually Democracy

Competent Government = Effective State Bureacracy

Whatever this is, this is not republicanism.

Countries like South Korea were effectively tracking the spread of the virus within weeks, yet months later we are still nowhere near achieving that. The pandemic presents us with an objective standard showing that our government is one of the most incompetent in the world.

— Sebastian Milbank 🥀 (@JSMilbank) October 8, 2020

A Review of Law and Leviathan

The case for major administrative law reform rests on the need to respond a growing crisis on the ground. @RichardAEpstein on @Vermeullarmine and @CassSunstein's Law & Leviathan: https://t.co/g9ukK7sPH3 @realclearpolicy

— Brian A. Smith (@briansmith1980) September 16, 2020

Related:

Connecting Law and Leviathan to the classical legal tradition https://t.co/6wCKFSuH61

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) September 16, 2020

Law and Leviathan

NPR interview on LAW AND LEVIATHAN, which is appearing (dropping?) tomorrow. @Vermeullarmine https://t.co/sXEzjbzQzU

— Cass Sunstein (@CassSunstein) September 14, 2020

Critics of big government argue that the federal bureaucracy goes against the founding principles of the US.@CassSunstein and @Vermeullarmine make the case that what they call the administrative state is constitutionally justified. @NPR @hereandnow https://t.co/A8lSoEYyax

— Harvard University Press (@Harvard_Press) September 14, 2020

Claiming the Center

It was a delight to spend time with @jasonwblakely yesterday. His new book is trenchant and timely, and deserves a wide readership, particularly among those of us attempting to influence public policy and shape the future of our experiment in self-government. https://t.co/w0r0ml6KY8

— Joe Waters (@JoeWaters_GVL) August 28, 2020

Won't Disagree with This Headline

Replace the Elite https://t.co/3fzQkHx2aF

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 15, 2020

First Things

Patrick Deneen reviews The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite by Michael Lind.

Deneen:

Not unlike the managerial elite he criticizes, Lind fails to draw the correct conclusion from his own analysis. What’s ­needed is not “democratic pluralism” in which the ruling class remains a neoliberal, managerial elite who strategically concede some wealth and status to their inferiors. What’s needed is a fundamental displacement of the elite ethos by a common-good, popular conservatism that directs both economic goals and social values toward broadly shared material and social capital, toward the support of family and community life. We do not need libertarian overlords who buy off the working class with some welfare, nor a federal government that doles out tax receipts to localities, nor secularists who grudgingly grant some space to religious believers, but a ruling class that is itself informed by the very values that Lind believes were once regnant as the price of admission to elite status itself. Only the fear of not conforming to the regnant ethos will sufficiently move elites, but that fear will arise subsequent to the wholesale defeat, displacement, and discrediting of the regnant elite ethos.

This means, contra Lind, that what is needed is not “democratic pluralism,” which Lind envisions as a balance of power between an otherwise exploitative ruling class and an electorally powerful underclass. Rather, the current ruling class needs to be displaced by the ethos of the underclass: people shaped by and supportive of guild, ward, and congregation. The ruling class, no less than the working class, should be shaped by commitments of solidarity and subsidiarity, and not merely accord grudgingly with those who are. Lind regards the revival of such institutions as the Church as an unrealistic goal and calls for some sort of functional equivalent. Yet the decline of organizational forms of unions, local politics, and Church has been significantly advanced by the ­individualist, materialist, and secular ethos embraced by today’s managerial elite. If these institutions declined due to sustained efforts by the managerial elite, their renewal can be effected through the displacement of that elite with a different one informed by an opposing ethos. The power sought is not merely to balance the current elite, but to replace them. In the end, there is no “functional equivalent” of solidarity and subsidiarity, and only a leadership and working class steeped in such values will restore the ­republic.

This is the conservative fantasy, that they will gain power -- the "illiberals" or common-good conservatives will enact common-good conservatism when they get power, after enlisting the support of the working class. Tell me, who is going to provide the financial support to make this happen? Donald Trump? How are they going to overcome the gatekeepers within the Republican Party who act on behalf of the oligarchy?

Who's Going to Control It? Not You or Other Latin Integralists.

Fantastical.

Here we see the typical mistake, puzzling but typical, of assuming that the question is whether to create the machinery. The machinery already exists; the only question is who will control it and for what ends. https://t.co/OEfAurRqZ6 https://t.co/zoKuhacK6M

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 29, 2020

More of Vermeule's Brand of Constitutionalism

MOJ: Deference and the Common Good By Adrian Vermeule

On the relationship between common-good constitutionalism and judicial deference https://t.co/c8GL0bxLKJ

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 8, 2020

File under “things one thought were obvious” https://t.co/fmBfHvcIn7

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 8, 2020

(Adrian Vermeule) Deference and the Common Good https://t.co/fNdA0hdKPF

— Mirror of Justice (@MirrorJustice) May 8, 2020