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+  From: ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx (Colin Wight)
+  Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:10:34 +0000
>There is no power, or Power; there are relations of power, which are, if
>you wish, everywhere and just about everywhere. All social relations are
>constituted by power relations.


AND......I'm still waiting for the punch line. This formulation is vacuous.
Aren't the power fields which constitute social relations "differentiated".
You've just wiped out women's oppression, colonisation, imperialism,
slavery, and so on, in the merest press of your privileged computer button.
Bravo.



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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA

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