Фуко, Маркс и политическите технологии на натрупване на капитала
Foucault, Marx, and the Political Technologies of the Accumulation of Capital

Summary/Abstract: Despite the efforts to revise Foucault’s early courses at the Collège de France towards an anti-Marxist interpretation, these lectures constitute an indelible sign of the French philosopher’s fruitful intervention in the field of Marxist analysis of exploitation. I focus on the lectures from 1972-3, 1973-4. As I attempt to show, Foucault’s analytics of power developed in these lectures helps us understand the embeddedness of political technologies in the process of capital accumulation. My reading concentrates particularly on the role of violence (and different mechanisms and institutions of violence and coercion), not only as a “prelude to the history of capital” (Marx), but as its constant fellow-traveler. As Foucault shows, “apparatuses and techniques of imprisonment” are means to “accumulate people” for the ends of capitalist production and in this sense are not only indispensable for the reproduction of capital but function also as “levers” of its accumulation.

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