Foucault was a wild left wing guy who had no tolerance for the neo-liberal expansion of the market themed American style of politics and TV trivia form of questioning posing as journalism, so let’s just get post 2020 and start debating this
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In other words you’d never find Foucault in Petes wine cave unless it was well after hours for an orgy of sex and experimentation with the effect of heavy alcohol doses on the brain and the underinvestigated limits of sociality
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Foucault stood up for immigrants, prisoners and LGBT people in his writing... and went to actual marches in support of these causes too! That took political courage... and more than a lot of capital M marxists had at the time.
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The real question is if you inspire neoliberals and people call you a neoliberal, does that make you a neoliberal? Anyways, think I'm just proving Bhaskar's point
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There’s no evidence that he was a neoliberal. Plenty of evidence that he wasn’t. And some even argue that he was a closet Bolshevik
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695114537636 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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what kind of neoliberal says “there’s no difference between being a historian and a Marxist”???pic.twitter.com/poCMyTUTWy
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‘at the end of his life Foucault was seeking precisely to “get rid of Marxism.”‘ read this article, https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/michel-foucault-neoliberalism-friedrich-hayek-milton-friedman-gary-becker-minoritarian-governments …. foucult favored neoliberalism. he was anti-marxist.
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