On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:01:10 -0400 "Charles Brown"
<cbrown at michiganlegal.org> writes:
> Michael Pugliese
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> CB: From the text below, seems like Foucault and the gang merged
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> liberalism,( Just-in-time neo-liberalism) with special opportunist
> emphasis
> on anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism ,and fancy terminology.
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> Neo-opportunist and neo-anti-communist,which ain't neo.
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With Foucault his politics seemed to do a bit of oscillation. Back when he was a student at the Ecole Normale, he joined the PCF. And his earliest published writings were Marxist. Then he declared himself to be a "Nietzschean" in the 1950s and he became an avowed anticommunist. Indeed in the early 1960s he served on a commission that was considering educational reform proposals for de Gaulle's government. At that time, most of his acquaintances assumed Foucault to be a Gaullist. In the mid-1960s he taught in Tunisia, and there he became radicalized. Many of his best students there were Communists. When he returned to France, he like many other intellectuals became caught up in the events of May 1968 and their aftermath. Like Sartre, de Beauvoir, Althusser etc., he was strongly supprtive of the young Maoists.
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> Foucault the Neohumanist?
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> By RICHARD WOLIN
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