On Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"
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Foucault's Disciplined Army
Foucault's book is a critique of liberalism because it shows you that, you know, the kind of liberal feel-good idea of what the prison is better than killing them is in fact a masking of power. So all of these institutions depend on disciplining. It's not just held by the state; who is actually benefiting from this? At times he kind of suggests it's the bourgeoisie. The emergence of this disciplinary framework coincides with the development of capitalism and the need to organize men.
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