From: dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 09:49:28 +0000
Subject: Re: M-I: Baudrillard


> Date:          Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:20:17 -0500
> To:            marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> From:          Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
> Subject:       M-I: Baudrillard
> Reply-to:      marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

> I've been reading Baudrillard's Mirror of Production. This book, written in
> the mid-70s, engages in real argument with Marx - in other words, it was
> written well before B. veered off into utter pomo hyperspace. One of the
> things he criticizes Marx for is for being insufficiently radical - of
> accepting, even furthering, the capitalist emphasis on production. (This
> must have been popular in Paris at the time; Foucault also argued that Marx
> and Ricardo were basically two sides of the same coin.) I'm wondering -
> does anyone know anything about the reception of this book by Marxists?
> Have there been critiques/responses that are worth reading? What do the
> comrades make of B's argument?
> 
> Doug
> 
> --
> Tony Smith has a good chapter demolishing Baudrillard in 
"Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics" SUNY 1993.
Forget Baudrillard.
Dave.



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