[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[Joanna]

"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"

Post hoc propter hoc: the purpose of the prison system is to do the 
following, in no particular order:

1. Disenfranchise minorities
2. Provide union jobs for ex-manufacturing workers
3. Terrorize those not in prison with the prospect of imprisonment
4. Insult gay people without seeming to
5. Provide evidence that there is justice

Joanna