Quoting SA <s11131978 at gmail.com>:
> shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
>> foucault says that the proletariat must take power in order to win,
>> not take power in the service of a higher power, justice. chomsky
>> disagrees with this,
>
> Boy, this thread is turning me (returning me?) into much more of a
> Chomskyite than I thought I was....You didn't quote the part that
> follows, where they put aside the hypotheticals and talk concretely.
>
> At this point, Foucault seems to talk himself into a hole:
That's funny; I read the passage and came to the same conclusion about Chomsky's argument. Chomsky claims that there's some higher Justice that he just knows is infallible. However, asserting that there is some transcendent form of Justice that we must adhere to is a political argument through and through! Foucault is dead on here: all human justice is a social practice that is created and changed through political struggle. --Including the definition of justice that Chomsky treats as "floating above" any political battle!
Miles