Will there be a Part II looking at how the Ehrenreichs looked at the New Left as a manifestation of this New Class from the left?
Reading these summary accounts, particularly Schelsky's "priesthood" notion, makes me think that Wesley Yang's "Successor Ideology" has been far more successful in its takeover of institutions than the old New Left's "march through the institutions" ever was.
I covered the Ehrenreichs very briefly in my earlier essay on "Radicalised Bureaucracies." I do want to write a follow-up piece, but it's likely to focus on Alvin Gouldner (i.e., new class theory from a Marxian perspective).
Never thought a non-German would know about a relatively obscure (in contrast to Adorno, Habermas, Honneth) German sociologist like Schelsky of all people. I last heard him mentioned maybe in the late 1980s when my dad had his file-and-rank union staffers over for coffee at our place.
Interesting! I guess the rest of Schelsky's work on family structures in post-war West Germany has been pretty much forgotten by this point, but his 1974 book and essay on the "new class" as a "new priesthood" has a definite citational imprint in some of the subsequent literature on the new class. And his essay's there also in the footnotes of more contemporary anti-communists who take the "long march through the institutions" concept seriously. There was a whole online workbook on it produced a few years back by someone who teaches at Liberty University ...
An excellent piece.
Will there be a Part II looking at how the Ehrenreichs looked at the New Left as a manifestation of this New Class from the left?
Reading these summary accounts, particularly Schelsky's "priesthood" notion, makes me think that Wesley Yang's "Successor Ideology" has been far more successful in its takeover of institutions than the old New Left's "march through the institutions" ever was.
I covered the Ehrenreichs very briefly in my earlier essay on "Radicalised Bureaucracies." I do want to write a follow-up piece, but it's likely to focus on Alvin Gouldner (i.e., new class theory from a Marxian perspective).
Never thought a non-German would know about a relatively obscure (in contrast to Adorno, Habermas, Honneth) German sociologist like Schelsky of all people. I last heard him mentioned maybe in the late 1980s when my dad had his file-and-rank union staffers over for coffee at our place.
Interesting! I guess the rest of Schelsky's work on family structures in post-war West Germany has been pretty much forgotten by this point, but his 1974 book and essay on the "new class" as a "new priesthood" has a definite citational imprint in some of the subsequent literature on the new class. And his essay's there also in the footnotes of more contemporary anti-communists who take the "long march through the institutions" concept seriously. There was a whole online workbook on it produced a few years back by someone who teaches at Liberty University ...
Brilliant.