Musa al-Gharbi

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Sociologist whose term "symbolic capitalists" (after Bourdieu) James uses in "Learning to Need Each Other" (March 2026, https://departurein.place/learning-to-need-each-other/) for professionals who deal in symbols, rhetoric, data and abstraction, and whose structural role is reproducing the culture and class relations that keep the system running. James pairs it with Barbara and John Ehrenreich's professional-managerial class. See professional-class-misrecognition.

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Provenance: James's post "Learning to Need Each Other" (2026-03-05, https://departurein.place/learning-to-need-each-other/), read in full 2026-10-26; saved in raw/notes/departurein-place-2026-10-26.md. His statement of his own position; not a sourced claim about the world. Disposition: stated.

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Departure in place
The class that can't see