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2025-04-26 12:48:15
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-crisis-of-culture
The Crisis of Culture
Within the social sciences, there is an increasing amount of work being carried out looking at the ‘new elites’. The term ‘new elites’ (plural) is most clearly attributed to the work of the American historian and social critic Christopher Lasch. Others talk about the professional-managerial class, a category that in part builds upon the idea of The Managerial Revolution that was discussed by James Burnham as long ago as 1940. Interestingly, if you go back and read George Orwell’s 1984, first published in 1949, you find that his description and critique of the Party, especially in his appendix, is in large part a critique of what could now more clearly be called the modern (or perhaps the post-modern) new elites. Orwell, strangely, appears to be even more relevant today than when he was writing.
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