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+  From: Mani Salem-Haghighi <msalemha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 19:45:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Paul Jolet wrote:

> Ah, but power IS truth. Those in power define what is true. They define
> all concepts.

Strictly speaking, this is false. Who do you have in mind when you speak
of "those in power"? There is no one "in power", or better, everybody's
"in power". See, for example, the chapter on Method in the first volume
of the Histpry of Sexuality.

mani

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