...Walzer's Regrets of Revolutionary Foucault...

 Michael Walzer.  The Politics of Michel Foucault.  Fall 1983

• Foucault's books are fictions, he says, but only because power relations and disciplinary establishments within which they could be validated don't yet exist.
• Contrary to former, princely power, new power exists and is exercised without center, king.  State is still there, but in fact just conceals the real power distribution.  New subject is not a carrier of rights — but of norms, "agents and also products of moral, medical, sexual, psychological (rather than legal) regulation" (54).
• Call the pluralist political theoreticians 'conservative' as denying centre of power they rob the radical politics of its object.  And Foucault is one of such theoreticians (AP: It’s interesting that in ‘democratic’ societies Fo’s destiny is much more difficult.  Eventually right because he robbed the power from the legitimacy elected representatives, thus challenge the democratic.  Whereas in the countries where there is no legitimate power, it sounds just all right.).  However, Fo is not interested with dispersion of the power, rather with its exercise on the extremities of political field.  His critic is always based on the fact that he is not "a good revolutionary because he does not believe in the sovereign state or the ruling class, and therefore he does not believe in the take-over of the state or replacement of the class.  He does not believe in a democratic revolution, for the demos doesn't exist in his political world.  And he certainly doesn't believe in a vanguard revolution: the vanguard is nothing more than the monarchy marque, one more pretender to royal power" (55).
• The network of micro-disciplines make part of a lager system, called by Fo as disciplinary society, carceral city, panoptic regime or carceral archipelago.  But in no case it is a political system, there is no princely center, no Hobbist sovereign shaped by a legislator or a founding convention, controlled through a judicial process".  Docility or other useful quality fo the subjects are created by science, not law.  They are not free agents who invent his own standards or in the language of rights 'give the law to themselves'.  "Triumph of professional or scientific norms over legal rights and local discipline over constitutional law".
• This is reformist. But in Fo's interview there was a larger strategy — not reformation but abolition (e.g., of carceral city).  Fo's politics is often called anarchist (AP: In this regard cancel culture fits very well criteria of anarchism).