File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9907, message 76


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
>
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