[PEN-L:13545] Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

As you present the differences in this last posting, I have no difficulty 
in agreeing with you. My point in the first posting was simply to 
elucidate, on the subject of Marx and Foucault, where Yoshie and I were in 
agreement, and where we differed. I am not surprised that you would agree 
with her position on this question. But since I did my best to present the 
differences in a fair-minded way, I was somewhat taken back by your 
characterization of it as an "unnecessarily provocative red herring." That 
is what I had difficulty understanding.

<< Well, Leo, I don't understand what you don't understand; as far as I can
tell, you take exactly the position I attributed to you. I am with Yoshie on
this one. I agree that F's utility is mainly to fill in gaps in historical
materialist analysis. >>

Leo Casey
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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