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WHO IS TO BE CHALLENGED? CAPITALISM OR RATIONALITIES

Abstract

Although there may be disagreements on almost all issues within Marxism, all schools from Western to Eastern Marxism are agreed on two points. They are clear and precise about the enemy: capitalism. And there is almost absolute consensus about the target of political struggle: bourgeois class. In the examination of Marxism it will be shown that there is no exact location and center of capitalism and bourgeoisie class, the overthrowing of which is presupposed to lead humanity to freedom and justice. This will be drawn upon the argument of Foucault. Foucault argues that it is useless to organize the class struggle against contemporary forms of power. He shows that modern forms of power do not spring from the bourgeois class but from various forms of rationalities. And it will also be argued that different forms of rationalities cannot be contested by class struggle. However, they can effectively be challenged by what Foucault calls the ‘resistance movement

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