I mean, reading how he defines elites, it almost seems like he is trying to recreate the definition of labor aristocrats.
(shitpost below) A bunch of laborers given bits of capitalist plunder in order to siphon off revolutionary inclinations? Sounds a tad familiar. We're gonna have the US revolutionary body call themselves Turchinists.
Yeah, the way it is phrased is a bit odd here but in essence, it seems he is referring to laborers whose labor power demands higher commodity costs due to the cost of production of them as a laborer being higher due to being better educated and trained. Quite literally appears to attempting to reinvent sections of Marxism with the spooky stuff cut out. Hell, even the criticisms levied against him are regurgitated.
I was shitposting but that is actually interesting and useful contextualization, thanks for the info.
Smh some of y'all have never listened to Dr. King…
It's a good bit... It's a great bit even... but holy shit did I take psychic damage. 
"Turchin wrote in the journal Nature in 2010, forecasting a spike in unrest around 2020, driven by economic inequality, 'elite overproduction' and rising public debt,"
Turchin has a Capital reading group?
Yeah I do get it a bit sad though. I'm not too torn up over it as I didnt see myself traveling there anytime soon even if travel there was far easier than it is now.
I think that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will, in the future, too, not welcome the entry of Americans into it.
Gotta ask my main man Claude :)
Reading through that was exhausting, I cannot imagine having to do it.
I feel like the next recession here is going to be a like a drug-fueled fever dream
Usually, I'm unaffected by libs being libs but something about reading this genuinely made me want to vomit. I don't know why this disturbed me so much when I've found myself relatively fine while experiencing direct hate but something about this genuinely made me feel nauseated.
I was gonna make a pithy joke about expecting ideological consistency from a neolib at first But to me, it seems to be that dude is trying to rediscover dialectics within neoliberalism as a framework and force it together with whatever ideological components may serve as an explanation. It's a marriage of convenient ideas as he has seen something at play. I am still behind on theory though and this is the only article I've seen from him so I could be wrong.