Each issue we reprint a series of posts from the Bad Subjects discussion list. As always, these posts are reprinted unedited and as they appeared on the list. I thought it was well written, but I still have a problem with the points raised by Doug. As I read it, the shift from Marx to Foucault was a result of a changing set of social circumstances.
Class is too simplistic a method to use to analyse our world.
Whether you accept the term postmodernism, late modernism, late capitalism, the structures of domination and exploitation go beyond labour. To look at the concept of 'power' one nedds a variety of tools, not just Marxism. There are numerous ways to create wealth and economic power that do not rely directly on labour. It could also be argued that class itself is now more a case of lifestyle appropriation. One's choices in the world of consumption, where so many of those discursive trangressions occur, are still constrained by one's position in the realm of production.