[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Apr 2 20:56:34 PDT 2009


"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



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