Last year I read a chunk of David Caute', "Communism and the French
Intellectuals," which was pretty caustic.
Online (unfortunately, out of print)
is the entirety of Mark Poster, "Existential Marxism in France, "
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/EM/
which is more gracefully written, and written about a decade later, at
least, so includes discussion of May '68.
Michael Pugliese
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From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PEN-L:13328] Re: Re: Hardt: "Spinoza was a communist thinker long
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>
> >
> >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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