1st Edition
Marxist Political Economy and Bourdieu Economic and Cultural Capital, Classes and State
INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. ‘CAPITALS’, ‘FIELDS’, DOMINANT CLASS, INTELLECTUALS AND STATE: ASPECTS OF BOURDIEU’S ANALYSIS
1.1 ‘Capitals’, ‘fields’ and classes
1.2 Dominant class and ‘field of power’
1.3 ‘Organic solidarity’ and the increasing importance of the ‘general bureaucratic training’
1.4 The ‘priority’ of ‘consent’
1.5 The rejection of the ‘dichotomy’ between economic base and superstructure
1.6 The struggles within the dominated fraction of the dominant class: ‘Left hand of the state’ and ‘right hand of the state’
1.6.1 The defence of the ‘social conquest’ of the past and the ‘left hand of the state’
1.7 The state as ‘meta-field’
2. A FIRST CRITICAL CODIFICATION: INTELLECTUALS, CAPITALISM AND THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION OF CAPITALISM
2.1 The centrality of the intellectuals: the two theoretical instances
2.1.1 The first theoretical instance
2.1.2 The second theoretical instance
2.1.3 The integration of the ‘left’ and ‘right’ and the ‘two states’
2.2 The non-theorization of capitalism
3. THE SOCIAL CLASSES: BOURDIEU’S AND MARXIST ANALYSIS
3.1 Relations of production, modes of production and class affiliation: preliminary discussion
3.2 The capitalist mode of production, the capitalist state, the bourgeoisie and the working class
3.2.1 The elementary and the specific feature of the capitalist mode of production and the emergence of the bourgeoisie and the working class
3.3 The new petty bourgeoisie of the capitalist mode of production and its distinction from the working class and the higher managers
3.3.1 The working class and the new petty bourgeoisie of the capitalist mode of production
3.3.2 The higher managers
3.4 The heads of the state apparatus and the new petty bourgeoisie of the state
3.4.1 The heads of state apparatus
3.4.2 The new petty bourgeoisie of the state
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
4.1 Class structural determination (structural class position) and potential ideological-political position: the distinction
4.2 Digression: The merger of all the middle classes through ‘pertinent effects’, the enlargement of the new petty bourgeoisie and the shrinkage of the working-class in Poulantzas’s analysis
4.2.1 The unification of middle classes
4.2.2 The enlargement of the new petty bourgeoisies and the shrinking of the working class
4.3 The potential ideological-political position of the new petty bourgeoisie (of the capitalist mode of production and of the wider state) and the question of the ‘autonomous class strategy’
4.3.1 At the ideological level
4.3.2 At the political level
4.3.3 ‘Demands’ and ‘political interests’ of the new petty bourgeoisie
4.4 The state capitalism as a potential strategic orientation of the new petty bourgeoisie
5. AGAIN FOR THE STATE: CLASS AND ‘UNIVERSAL’
5.1 Bourdieu’s ambiguities: introductory remarks
5.2 The ‘bourgeois’ as ‘universal’
5.3 ‘The double character of the State’ and the question of class struggle within the state
5.4 The ‘bearers’ of ‘universal’: ‘right hand of the state’ and ‘left hand of the state’
5.4.1 The ‘right hand of the state’ as the ‘bearer’ of ‘universal’
5.4.2 The ‘left hand of the state’ as the ‘bearer’ of universal’ against the ultra-liberal conservative revolution’ and Marxism
EPILOGUE
Biography
George Economakis is Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras. Theofanis Papageorgiou is Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras.
