Eric Maugendre<p>"Professionals tend to head progressive organizations and also to hold them back, because the skills professionals acquire to manage an oppressive system are the opposite of those required to challenge that system."</p><p>— Susan Rosenthal, in Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight (2009) <a href="https://remarxpub.com/professional-poison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">remarxpub.com/professional-poi</span><span class="invisible">son/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oversight</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/progressives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>progressives</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/professionals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professionals</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>progress</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hubris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hubris</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/guilds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilds</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/organizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organizations</span></a></p>