America is said to be the nation of know-how, and in this sense post-modern philosophy is a cultural counterpart of Americanization of politics everywhere (e.g., absence of partisanship, focus on electoral techniques, preference for decentralization, etc.). Know-how to do what, though?
Then again, Foucault may have been putting the old wine of Bernstein into a new bottle:
***** Luxemburg was instrumental in setting up the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania. In 1896 she moved to Berlin to work within the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). The SPD was a massive organisation which maintained 90 newspapers. Its official policy was "not a person nor a farthing for this system".
Unfortunately, this revolutionary stance was undermined by party leader Eduard Bernstein. Bernstein advocated "evolutionary" socialism -- a series of reforms within the capitalist system. Defending his policies, he wrote that the "final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing; the movement is everything".
Luxemburg launched into a theoretical battle with Bernstein, arguing that the "final goal of socialism is the only decisive factor distinguishing the social democratic movement from bourgeois democracy and bourgeois radicalism".
<http://jinx.sistm.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1999/347/347p26.htm> *****
Yoshie