To me they’re like mere servants of the State, like Lenin talked about in “2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?” in his writing “The State and Revolution”
Under Capitalism, they are its privileged knights that try to deflect and control, if not defend directly its image as “the only option”, who have their incentive in doing so, with their class status stake being in their duty to shepherd the means of production and its resulting benefits
However, they don’t own the means of production, as they merely manage it for the landholding, industrialist, and financier capitalists
On the other hand, under Socialism, while its privileges will be probably be done away, the PM class on its own would innovated upon, for their new duty of overseeing, managing, and reporting the collectivized cooperatives and state-owned enterprises…
Until the final stage of Communism arrives, I think they’re pretty handy
I say this, because I hear such disgusted sentiment in Hexbear against them
There’s a strain of thought that basically goes, “If one subset of a group gets more crumbs, then they are more likely to side with the givers of the crumbs instead of siding with those who get fewer crumbs.” Which… leads to turning the concept of “petite bourgeois” and “professional managerial class” into a meme (strawman?, mememan?) and then shittalking that instead of a more honest and serious analysis.