From: LeoCasey-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:56:27 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-TH: Foucault and Marx


In a message dated 97-11-19 13:17:37 EST, Doug writes:

<< Anyway, what I said was that modern Marxists have often been rather poor
at
 micropolitics, at both the theoretical level, operating on the grand levels
 of abstraction appropriate to world-historical forces, but kind of sparse
 in exploring how human subjects are made. The latter is what Butler and
 Foucault do, and often well, in my opinion. Missing, in Butler more than
 Foucault, is any sense of how the micro connects to the macro. I think that
 what we loosely call "postmodernism" has had the virtue of focusing on
 these micro things, but that it's now time to take those insights and put
 them together into an enriched, fleshed out Marxism. >>

If you haven't already looked at it, I would strongly recommend Poulantzas'
last book, _State, Power, Socialism_, in which he attempts to do precisely
this with respect to Foucault.

Leo


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