Irving Kristol, a follower of early neoconservative Leo Strauss, was an early advocate of anti-managerial thinking
"the government bureaucracy; media educational establishment; the elite"
Peter Brimelow [see separate note] advances this strain of thinking (refering to the managerial class as the "New Class") and posits that the elite is using immigration to eliminate the (white) nation-state ("the elite's last rival" in Slobodian's thinking)
see also notes on James Burnham, who does not appear in Slobodian's book but whose strain of anti-managerialism is relevant here