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Re: Foucault, Marx, Poulantzas

> >which "social relations"? 

 Social relations of production & reproduction (the latter must be
 broadly conceived).

Yoshie 
That's right, so why waste my time pretending L&M have no right
calling your position essentialist?? Take heed from what Benjamin
really says in his Theses.


What's wrong with "essentialism" if essence is conceived as a
historically evolved & evolving ensemble of social relations, as Marx
(drawing upon Hegel while criticizing him) has, rather than as a
Platonic form?  Besides, what's an alternative theory to explain
social phenomena?

Yoshie


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