Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

["Ricardo Duchesne" <rduchesn@xxxxxxxx>]

You said it Justin:
> 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

It is essentialist. Relations of production DO NOT, in all case, in all
historical epochs, explain the nature of the state. War has been in
many instances far more important.