Destituent power and "the task of the coming politics" (Oligarchy XIX)

Forgive the stream of consciousness

I’m reading through a book by the American philosopher Idris Robinson, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, and it has been helpful to my thinking about where we go from here. The dichotomy of constituent vs. destituent power also helps to explain my broader criticism of the professional-managerial class and its politics, so I thought it might be good to share a few words. Nothing defines the professional-managerial class quite like their tendency to give maximum credence to anything uttered by the ultra-elite who actually rule our country. There is a tendency in the PMC to attribute epistemic and moral authority to this ultra-elite. The institutional identity and functional power of this class are permanently bound up with large-scale, expert-mediated systems. A lot of what this means in practice is that the PMC serve power consolidation and inequality largely regardless of their own subjective views of values.