ABSTRACT
IN THE LAST decade, Karl Marx’s concept of reproduction has been one of the major organizing ideas informing socialist theories of schooling. Marx states that “every social process of production is, at the same time, a process of reproduction…. Capitalist production, therefore…produces not only commodities, not only surplus-value, but it also produces and reproduces the capitalist relation, on the one side the capitalist, on the other the wagelabourer.”1 Radical educators have given this concept a central place in developing a critique of liberal views of schooling. Moreover, they have used it as the theoretical foundation for developing a critical science of education.2 Thus far, the task has been only partially successful.
