Re: Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

["Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Primarily the social relations of production, i.e., the class relations
whose structure primarily explains the nature and development of the mode of
production, the state, and, less directly, ideology. This is elementary.
Surely you knew this is the historical materialist view? L&M attack it
(wrongly) as monocausal, narrowminded class reductionsim and bad
essentialism. --jks

> >
> > Marx doesn't talk about "the identity of the working class," "the
> > identity of a mode of production,"  The idea is to examine phenomena as
> > (historically evolved & evolving) ensembles of social relations
>
> which "social relations"?

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