[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[Miles Jackson]

Eubulides wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
>  
>> Let's put Foucault's point bluntly: the purpose of the prison system 
>> is to create criminals and expand various social practices and 
>> discourse to "control" criminality.  As far as I can see, the U. S. 
>> prison system is a wonderful case study that illustrates Foucault's 
>> point.
>>
>> Miles
>
>
> ==============
>
> I don't think MF subscribed to teleofunctionalist arguments.
>
> Ian
Point taken; that was a sloppy post.  "Purpose" is the wrong word.  Omit 
it.  The prison system--as a complex of discourse and social 
practices--creates criminals.

Miles