Re: Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> 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.

What explains the cause of war, though?  War itself?  Human nature?
Something else?

Yoshie