From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Bourdieu and Reformism Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:42:34 PDT Yet I sense an Idealism or a negation of history in holding these figures up as the archetype of the True Marxism. Ya, it would have been nice if the Marxists hadn't given up the students, but they did, and it was the practice of Marxism, not theory that led to this. A more concrete historical anaylsis must acknowledge that these events had a profound effect on Marxists of the lineage you site who realized this discourse wasn't doing the trick..I am thinking here particularly of Baudrillard, to a lesser extent perhaps Foucault. This raises an issue that I am uncomfortable in Bourdieu text: he maintains a discourse of scarcity; a discourse by which Baudrillard shows that Marxism is merely the mirror image of captialism. At a purely phenomenolgical level Baudrillard and Baitille, ring incredibly more true in understanding the obscene affluence/exess(no merely monetary) of contemporary American capitalism, than Bourdieu's scarcity discourse. kent >On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, kent strock wrote: > > > I am a bit uneasy with this de facto connection between B. and Marxism. > >Oh, but I don't mean the self-proclaimed Marxism of what's left of the PCF >or of the rather different set of ideologies advanced by the >semi-autarkic state-capitalist regimes (China, etc.) around >the world today, I'm talking about the heritage of Western Marxism: >Benjamin, Gramsci, Adorno, Sartre, and the '68 movements (a heritage which >the "official" Marxist regimes persecuted no less remorselessly than their >Western analogues). > >-- Dennis > >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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