Re: Re: Hardt: "Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

[Ian Murray]

> Why then Foucault's fight againt Marxism?  The Great Confinement
that
> Foucault analyzes in _Madness & Civilization_, _Discipline &
Punish_,
> etc. makes much more sense in a Marxist theoretical framework than a
> Weberian one: primitive accumulation & industrialization (and under
> it the transition from formal to real subsumption) are changes in
> social relations that created the biopolitics & governmentality that
> Foucault discusses.  Since Foucault sought to create a new theory,
> rather than explaining the Great Confinement by Marxist theory,
> however, he ended up going into unnecessary theoretical contortions.
>
> Yoshie
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Ahem, the metaphor.....We might as well say why did Darwin attempt to
break with theistic explanations of causality with regards to plants
and animals.

Ian