From: "Dave Bedggood" <dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:37:10 +0000
Subject: M-G: Some Bourdieu and a pinch of RegSchool



I would like Justin to answer the following questions:

(1) If you do not hold to Marx's theory of value, what basis is there for
arguing exploitation under capitalism, and for overthrowing capitalism?

(2) If you take away Marx's theory of value, what is left of "marxism"?

(3) Surely "thinking hard" is a very post-modern conception of social
science. Don't you think that Marx developed an existing body of knowledge
which made specific reference to certain regularities, namely labour and
value, and extended these theories in an "illuminating way"?

(4) Do you think the "failure of Western Bolshevism" refutes Bolshevism as
such, "toy Bolshevism"  or Marx's theory of value?

 (5) Do you think that competing "third way" theories such as you advocate,
and which specified exploitation on some basis other than Marx's theory of
value,  may have been confirmed by the "failure" of Bolshevism?

Dave.

Dave Bedggood


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