Power relations interlock with economics without being subordinate to it.

Evidence

The problem that is at issue in the research I am talking about can, I think, be broken down as follows. First: Is power always secondary to the economy? Are its finality and function always determined by the economy? Is power’s raison d’étre and purpose essentially to serve the economy? Is it designed to establish, solidify, perpetuate, and reproduce relations that are characteristic of the economy and essential to its workings? Second question: Is power modeled on the commodity? Is power something that can be possessed and acquired, that can be surrendered through a contract or by force, that can be alienated or recuperated, that circulates and fertilizes one region but avoids others? Or if we wish to analyze it, do we have to operate—on the contrary—with different instruments, even if power relations are deeply involved in and with economic relations, even if power relations and economic relations always constitute a sort of network or loop? If that is the case, the indissociability of the economy and politics is not a matter of functional subordination, nor of formal isomorphism. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 33

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that economy and power interlock in a loop, neither functionally subordinate nor formally isomorphic.
• XREF: Directly relevant to how later biopolitics readings treat racism as productive of group differentiation and death, not a mere superstructural reflection of economics. — connects to: Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule; Gramsci’s rejection of economic reductionism enables conditional- tense analysis of unstable power relations; Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (+10 more)

Related

• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule (similarity 0.87)
• Gramsci’s rejection of economic reductionism enables conditional- tense analysis of unstable power relations (similarity 0.85)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically #corroborates (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Economic structure is necessary but not sufficient to explain race relations #corroborates (0.80)
• Coercive government power depends on voluntary cooperation from many #expands (0.78)