Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:22:53 +0100 (BST)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jon.beasley-murray-AT-man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Class and Exploitation


On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, bourdieu-digest wrote:

> bourdieu-digest         Monday, April 21 2003         Volume 01 : Number 506

> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:05:44 -0400
> From: "Daniel Breslau" <dbreslau-AT-vt.edu>
> Subject: RE: Class and Expoitation
>
> In Marxism, exploitation is not simply a matter of class, but is part of
> the definition of capital.  There is no capital without exploitation of
> those who lack it by those who possess it.  Exploitation is the private
> expropriation of social labor.  While Bourdieu doesn't often name
> 'exploitation,' it clearly remains a defining feature of all forms of
> capital.

I tried to approach such issues in an article on "Value and Capital in
Bourdieu and Marx," a draft of which is available on the web, but whose
final version was published in _Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture_.
Ed. Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
2000. 100-119.

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> Fjeld
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> Subject: Re: Class and Expoitation
>
>
> At 16:49 19.04.03, Magnus E. Marsdal wrote:
> >Right now, I'm focused on the concept of "exploitation". This is
> >cruical
> >to the marxist theory of "class" (especially under capitalism), while
> it
> >seems to play no important role in Bourdieus theory.
>
> Wouldn't a term like 'exploitation' require some theory of justice
> (against
> which one could negotiate 'real' and 'actual' distribution of capital)?
>
> >2 Has anyone else developed a theory of "exploitation" in relation to
> >cultural capital?
>
> B. writes on symbolic violence, eg. in _Language and Symbolic Power_.
> For a
> good intro to some themes in B's writing, see David Swartz, _Culture and
>
> Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu_.
>
> Oh, and then there's James Bohman's "Practical Reason and Cultural
> Constraint: Agency in Bourdieu's Theory of Practice" in _Bourdieu: A
> Critical Reader_ (ed. Richard Schusterman).
>
> Good luck!
>
> best,
>
>
> Torgeir Fjeld
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