[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I'm going to get to James' argument in the next couple of days, but its
worth noting that Foucault actually ends D+P with fairly extensive
quotations from Marx (with the laudatory citation and all), although
Foucault is much more interested in the shifts in what is criminal under
capitalism (Marx actually deals with this in his piece on the theft of
fire wood) and the shift from a punishment of the body to a punishment of
the 'soul' (I can go into this if so desired.)  On the other hand, the
concept of labor power remains without citation.  robert wood
> ^^^^^
> CB; How about a Marx-with-quotation-marks interpretation:  Prisons are
> part of the special repressive apparatus of the state power. The state
> is the main tool by which the ruling class rules over the ruled
> classes.
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> It is the main feature of the _direct_ coercive mechanism on the
> exploited class in capitalism ( pace the doubly free labor, wage-labor
> indirect coercive mechanism). Feudalism and ancient slave society
> didn't have prisons.
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