Talking to ... Malcom Kyeyune

Occasionally, we must admit we belong to an older generation with
worldviews shaped by our specific generational experiences. This,
at least, was what crossed my mind while reading the text of a
young Swedish writer considering the question of whether our
present-day culture wars could be the result of an elite
overproduction in the form of an educational glut from a flawed
educational system; often leading its actors into the fiercest
battles, not infrequently unfairly waged, for the remaining
high-status jobs. The most interesting thing about this
reflection is its tribute to the forgotten American political
scientist James Burnham, who’d analyzed an emerging new ruling
class in the forties with the publication of his Managerial
Revolution – incidentally, which significantly influenced George
Orwell’s writing of 1984. In his referencing of this thinker, who
was a Trotskyist that metamorphosed into a staunch conservative,
Malcom Kyeyune finds a diagnosis for the present as something
quite comparable: an emerging new Woke elite class that
distinguishes themselves morally rather than economically while
teaching the world of its possibility. He notices that they are
engaging in a moral economy that can be used for career
advancement, social status, and economic advantage, often at the
economic and career expense of the disadvantage they supposedly
represent. And because Malcolm still considers himself a Marxist,
our conversation (even if it lightly crosses different eras,
cultures, and continents) revolves around questioning what drives
this strange moral economy.


Malcolm Kyeyune is a fearlessly provocative blogger and writer
living in Uppsala, Sweden. He shouts for Aftonbladet but
primarily for English-language venues like UnHerd, American
Affair, and Compact Magazine.


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