Marxist Political Economy and Bourdieu

Economic and Cultural Capital, Classes and State

George Economakis, Theofanis Papageorgiou

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032451039
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000908756
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Business

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu's key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu's central theoretical points are analyzed within a political, sociological and politico-economic framework which allows for the development of a sequential narrative of his key ideas. Thus, the authors are able to highlight the theoretical consistencies and political conclusions which can be derived from Bourdieu's work. For example, Bourdieu's anti-neoliberal narrative is correlated with his analysis of class, and especially with his canonization of the petty bourgeoisie and its strategy for a reformed anti-neoliberal capitalism. The book also analyzes this coherent synthesis of Bourdieu's work in the context of Marxist political economy, including not only Marx but also Lenin, Althusser and Poulantzas. In this context, the book explores Bourdieu's work on the state, class strategy, socialism and capitalism. This unique perspective will be of great interest to social scientists, particularly in economics, politics and sociology, working on Bourdieu, Marx and capitalism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Introduction: Research questions
• 1 ‘Capitals’, ‘fields’, dominant class, intellectuals and state: Aspects of Bourdieu’s analysis
• 2 A first critical codification: Intellectuals, capitalism and the principal contradiction of capitalism
• 3 The social classes: Bourdieu’s and Marxist analysis
• 4 Potential ideological-political class position of the new petty bourgeoisie of the capitalist mode of production and of the state: A critical reading of Poulantzas’s analysis
• 5 Again for the state: Class and ‘universal’
• Epilogue
• Index