Of course Foucault was influenced by Marx. The Big Two in postwar France were Marx (via France's huge Communist Party and Kojeve) and Heidegger (popularized by Sartre). Practically every philosopher in France who wasn't a Thomist was influenced by those two. That doesn't make his thought automatically coincide with either Marxism or Heideggerianism.
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> the point of Dennis Claxton's introduction of that quote
> from Foucault was
> not that it was somehow wrong to quote Marx, but that
> Foucault felt that
> he didn't need to quote Marx constantly in order to be
> engaged in
> elaborating Marx's ideas. He was chiding people for
> insisting that he had
> nothing to do with marx's ideas, simply because people
> didn't see the
> iconography of citations throughout his texts.
>