Socialism never critiqued the theme of biopower

Evidence

One thing at least is certain: Socialism has made no critique of the theme of biopower, which developed at the end of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth; it has in fact taken it up, developed, reimplanted, and modified it in certain respects, but it has certainly not reexamined its basis or its modes of working. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 8519

Categorization

• XREF: A key gap the reader can carry forward: the absence of a socialist critique of biopower helps situate contemporary race-thinking debates.