[lbo-talk] Re: Chomsky on Foucault

[dave dorkin]

Very true CG. Foucault did what any good anarchist or
marxist or committed liberal for that matter would do;
show how power articulated itself. You dont need him
for theories on that though and what theories there
are are not terribly mind boggling. The historical
work isnt always or often very reliable unlike Noam's
or others who are more scrupulous with detail.

I spent alot of time in France growing up and I always
imagined that a lot of his importance there is due to
a stultifying official communist environment and the
lack of many Chomsky like figures which makes Foucault
appear more novel than he actually was. His importance
in other countries may have something to do with
fashionable imports that arent too threatening at
first glance.

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> 
> This hardly does justice to what Chomsky has
> actually written, e.g., what he's had to say about
Marxism, or his treatment of particular historical
and political questions from the run-up to the Pacific
War, through the vagaries of the media, to his account
of elite divisions preceding the invasion of Iraq. --CGE

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