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Dear Stephen 

Could you give sources for these assertions, please:

"Foucault states bluntly that he embraces the historical materialist
view that history should be understood in terms of the dynamics of
the forces and relations of production."

"He claims that we live in capitalist societies with a capitalist
ruling class, which exploits a working class (on purpose)." 

I'd like to believe Foucault believes these things too - that there
is agency, and there are subjects, and that there is a potent,
causal 'extra-discursive'. From what little of his work I've read 
(and from some of the debates on this list), however, I'm just not 
sure he does.

Thanks

Nick