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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > 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
>=======
>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

Are you aware of Foucault's view of causal explanation?

Yoshie