<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> He had as much integrity as most of the academics I have known. That is, none. Joanna Jim Farmelant wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20060831.165846.1304.0.farmelantj@juno.com"> <pre wrap=""> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:01:10 -0400 "Charles Brown" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbrown@michiganlegal.org"><cbrown@michiganlegal.org></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Michael Pugliese ^^^^^ CB: From the text below, seems like Foucault and the gang merged into liberalism,( Just-in-time neo-liberalism) with special opportunist emphasis on anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism ,and fancy terminology. Neo-opportunist and neo-anti-communist,which ain't neo. ^^^^^^^ </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Foucault the Neohumanist? By RICHARD WOLIN ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>