This small essay by Janine Brodie called “Power and Politics” has several other issues, but their most frustrating one is their outright DISMISSAL of Marxist class analysis for the stupidest reasons. Economic determinism? I guess if you yearned to softly dismiss marx by misrepresenting him.
God I fucking hate poli sci majors.
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I’m not the brightest crayon in the box but is it just me or does Doctor Brodie somehow make politics and power some sort of vague, unsolvable mystery? Like fr I don’t want just an echochamber of nodding heads plz help am I in the wrong?
I need help putting words to my issues with it.
Ok, so on one hand you have Marx’s analysis of class, and on the other hand you have a more granular examination of power from Foucault. These don’t seem like they’re mutually exclusive, just examinations at different two very different scales. But the way how it’s written it almost comes across like the author thinks they are? I don’t know Foucault at all, though; im only going off of how he’s being summarized here.