From: "Dave Bedggood" <dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:15:13 +0000
Subject: Re: M-TH: Some Bordieu and a pinch of RegSchool


Justin writes:
> 
> For once Dave B and I are in substantial agreement. Although I don't
> understand why the notion that all capital derives from an economic
> suprolus appropriated by the ruling class is a "broad neo-Ricardan concept
> of exploitation." Sounds like the orthodox Marxist one to me.

Why? because it is insufficient to talk about surplus appropriated by 
a ruling class without specifying if the source is surplus-value 
appropriated during production, or surplus appropriated during 
exchange. The latter conception of appropriation is Ricardian and 
eliminates the contradiction between use-value and exchange-value as 
the dynamic of capitalism. Bourdieu in adopting a Ricardian 
conception of exploitation, does echo the Frankfurters in 
shifting the locus of class struggle from production to exchange and 
hence to culture and politics. Hence class struggle over production 
ceases to be the driving force for change, and is replaced by the 
moral rebellion of the petty bourgeois socialist intellectual.
Dave

Dave Bedggood


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