[lbo-talk] a poe moe and da poe moes

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Sun Jul 27 17:34:02 PDT 2008


At 08:08 PM 7/27/2008, Carrol Cox wrote:


>shag wrote:
> >
> > The link above, here's an excerpt, a summary
> > of various thinkers on power:
> >
> > "Foucault argues [CLIP]For Foucault, power is not violence­violence
> > takes place when where the limits of power are reached. War presupposes an
> > absence of a shared truth, while power is the setting up of shared truths
> > in order to avoid war.
>
>Most of what you, MIles, & Dennis have been saying about Foucault is
>impressive - but I hope you can give some explanation of this
>(seemingly) self-evident nonsense -- and vicious nonsense at that.
>
>I won't comment further until someone expands on this point.
>
>Carrol


:) i don't know if miles has any expertise in this area, but it's likehe
said about another topic, it's just such an utterly banal sociological point, it's hard to get back to a mindset when it was not so i have a chance in hell of explaining it to you.

you'll live, i'm sure. :)

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