Diff: MichelFoucault

  

 "My idea is that the subject is inherently political, in the sense that 'subject', to me, denotes a piece of freedom - where you are no longer rooted in some firm substance, you are in an open situation." 

  

 It may instead be argued that without the individual self as a point of resistance totalitarianism is inveitable (for instance, as dramatised Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the notion that the needs of the individual must be subordinated to the comon good leads inexorably to the oppression of the individual). See: [OnCommunism]. A further problem with Foucault's theories is increased modern scepticism towards the idea of environmental influences being predominant in development of the self, as the Lockean notion of the tabula rasa moves back towards an emphasis on innate characteristics and genetics.