> generalized bubble thinking. If you want to socialize corporations,
> how do you do it? Who are the owners, and how are the things run?
One of the interesting antinomies of US Left thought is this emphasis on the evils of corporations, when in fact every corporation is tied to a discrete market (this is Bourdieu's distinction between the habitus of position-takings, and the social field of possible moves, in the overall game of accumulation). Microsoft may get tagged as being evil, but you never hear the bond market denounced as the vicious, blood-dripping tyrant it is.
> how is capitalist power exercised? Jackie O had nothing to do with
> determining the conditions of social labor or the deployment of US
> imperial power abroad. Senior executives, financiers, and helpful
> intellectuals do.
Which leads into the global division of labor: Bourdieu's notion of symbolic, cultural and intellectual capital, as zones of struggle which the Forces of Good dare not leave uncontested. The Evangelions of Theory must rush in where the Angels of Neoliberalism fear to tread.
-- Dennis