ABSTRACT
Maliha Safri, like Charusheela, believes that Chakrabarti and Cullenberg have succeeded in pushing beyond an "unfruitful deadlock" concerning the relationship between capitalism and its noncapitalist other. In her view, their work also leads in two new directions: to a new dialogue between subaltern studies and postmodern Marxism, and to a new theorization of the social surplus. In their response, Chakrabarti and Cullenberg begin by explaining both the context of their initial exploring of the "Marxist-postcolonial lineage" and what their project means to them in retrospect. Richard Wolff, however, laments Bourdieu's distancing of his arguments from communism and Marxism, in a manner that misses many of the contradictions of neoliberalism and how an oppositional politics might exploit them. The program for Rethinking Marxism 2006 is now complete: more than 460 people are scheduled to present their work in over 150 different panels, plenary sessions, and artistic events.
