haven't been here for awhile, but nice post to revisit...

ah the incredible polarity/dilemma represented in this debate...

while really i am so poorly read in both of these positions, i hope this doesn't seem a wild generalization, but this somehow seems to encapsulate
the 2 qualities and 2 tacts of grappling with the oppressive circumstances of our day that were they to be merged by some alchemical undertaking
might arrive at a beautiful secret weapon needed against our realtime global Idiocracy:

Foucault in his french virtual and frequently useless but pure ballet-of-words-genius to get at the deepest root of the problem...
Chomsky in his utilitarian american moralistic superhero obligation and sincere but dry consciousness to save the day...
( actually b4 watching would have expected mish's comment to be the case, but thought chomsky held his own, but then for me anarcho-syndicalism often has more tangibles to interact than juicy dialectic )

if in some crucible these 2 were forged to illuminate AND act in the same nano-second upon the power that sits over us like a
sumo wrestler wearing a costco shopping cart wrapped around both "his" waist and brain like a loincloth and a blindfold...
would all be suddenly vaporized and humanity liberated.

oh well just a thought , and more online philosophical effluvium ( which i suspect favors the foucaultian approach),
p.