[PEN-L:29410] Re: Re: Foucault = ?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> > (3) to what extent is Foucault = Gramsci - Marx?
> >
> > Any thoughts? Thanks.
> >
> > Eric
>
> I think the only thing that Gramsci and Foucault have in common is
> that they give left professors an excuse to go off jet-setting to
> some conference somewhere to deliver the 1000th paper on
> "De-centering the Subject in Gramsci (or Foucault)" or something
> like that in front of a bunch of dozing graduate students. Gramsci
> went to prison because he was a Communist. Foucault wrote some
> interesting books on repressive institutions but had no idea about
> how to put a stop to the root cause of those institutions. Well,
> maybe he did at one time but lost interest in mass revolutionary
> action somewhere along the line. He is largely responsible for a
> Nietzsche renaissance we have been enduring for the past 20 years or
> so. For that alone, it is worth pissing on his grave.

I regret my earlier effort at parody. Clearly it was superfluous when
you've got the real thing at hand.

Doug