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    This article briefly examines the relationships between Bourdieu and Marx. It suggests that Bourdieu's thought is a mixtum compositum produced by a synthesis of diverse philosophical and theoretical currents. To know wheher Bourdieu is "marxist" or not is the archetype of the scholastic question.

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    This article briefly examines the relationships between Bourdieu and Marx. It suggests that Bourdieu's thought is a mixtum compositum produced by a synthesis of diverse philosophical and theoretical currents. To know wheher Bourdieu is "marxist" or not is the archetype of the scholastic question.

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    FURTHER NOTES ON BOURDIEU’S “MARXISM”* Loic Waequant Centre de soctologie européenne University af California at Reekeley ABSTRACT Against the invocation of “Marxism” as a neo-MacCarthyite tactic of intelleceval disqualification (recently exemplified by Jeffrey Alexander's indictment of Bourdieu's work on just such basis), this article briefly examines the relationships between Bourdieu and Marx to suggest that Bourdiew,s thought is a mixtum composisur. produced by a syathesis of diverse philosophical and theoretical currents. His alleged “Marxism” is found to be rather unorthodox since it allies hima in cure with Weber and ‘with Durkheim: Bourdieu shares with Marx but slsa with Durkheim the ‘ejection of pure theory and a relational conception of the social, while Marx and Bourdieu voth part with Durkheim and draw closer to Weber in adopting an agonistic view of social life. To know wheibex Bourdieu is “Marxist” or not is the archetype ofthe scholastic question which obfuscates the common base on which all cial sociologies. Marxist or aot est. 1 would like to retum briefly 10 the subterranean relationships, real or alleged, between the sociology of Pierre Bourdicu and the thought of Kar! Mars. ‘The venomous attack of American sociologist Jeffrey Alexander—the prophet sans dlscipte ofthe sillbo theoretical movernen that is (or was) ‘nev-functionaism provides us with an opportune point of entry into the mater, ‘Not that this Long and ponderous pamphlet whose title, “The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu, seerus to hesitate, like the character portrayed by is autho, between tragedy and farce—

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