/lit/ - Literature

Upset by Trump's loss? Have a listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBXE39MkZx4

>There is no electoral road to the salvation of our people. That bus has gone. There is no way of turning things around, this side of a catastrophic collapse. There is no possibility, let alone a painless way, of getting back to the normality that the boomers knew, and allowed the political and financial elites to give away.

Trump was a part, not the whole. Don't despair. It might actually be better in the long run that he loses, because he has polarized the electorate and made millions of people despise the managerial elites as a distinct entity.

Then read this:
>Samuel T. Francis, Leviathan and Its Enemies
>"Following [James] Burnham, Sam believed a new ruling elite emerged in 20th-century. . . . the growth of giant corporations, the expansion of government power and bureaucracy, and the widespread emergence of mass organizations gave birth to a powerful class of skilled professionals to guide and manage the vast operations of the means of economic production, which, on a smaller scale, were once in the hands of private entrepreneurs and their families. As a result, the old ruling bourgeois elite, along with its political and social institutions and its view of society and politics, were replaced by a new "managerial elite," with a world outlook that set out to remake society according to its own interests, and which was hostile to any bourgeois remnants in conflict with that project."