Re: Re: Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Geography must have been a far larger nodal point under
> pre-capitalist modes of production than under capitalism.  That
> said, what's possible within the geography of Russia is certainly
> much more constrained than within the geography of the former USSR
> or socialist bloc, to take just one example.  That's no so much a
> geographical question as a political one, however.  The USA -- or
> Hardt & Negri's Empire -- does not recognize any boundaries; the
> entire planet _& beyond_ is the theater of its "national defense."

I just saw the odious Texas Senator Phil Gramm on TV, in a q&a with
Alan Greenspan, complaining about European financial regulation.
Though he was complaining about the constraints on U.S. banks'
European operations imposed by EU regulations, Gramm phrased it as
the EU forcing its rigid anticompetitive standards on our boys &
girls.

Doug