>
>Why then Foucault's fight againt Marxism?
Probably because "Marxism" for F meant those bores in the PCF. If you had to
deal with those people as intellectual hegemons, you'd attack them too.
--jks
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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