Note on the translation -- Abbreviations. Introduction: why unite Marx and Foucault, and how? 1 The Marx/Foucault difference: discipline and governtality : Disciplinary society/class society: surveillance and punishment : Foucault's discovery of a new social order -- Disciplines and class relations -- Analogical table Foucault/Marx. Civil society against class state: the College de France lectures of 1977-79 : Praise versus critique of the political economy? -- The Foucauldian grand narrative and theneoliberal question -- Foucault's grand tableau: civil society and the arts of governing. 2 Property-power and knowledge-power : Foucault explores the "pole" that Marx left in a grey zone : Foucault discerns knowledge-power alongside proprietor-power -- Why Marx's theory is missing a "pole." Foucault, theoretician of the knowledge-power of "competent-elites" : "The history of truth:" the true, the just and the authentic -- The truths of government -- Refounding the Marxian project to admit Foucault. Foucault, historian and critic of "copmetent-elites" : The historical conditions of modern "biopolitics" -- The Foucauldian critique of knowledge-power: a politics. 3 Marxian structuralism and Foucauldian nominalism? : Micro-relations of power and macro-relationships of class : The Foucauldian concept of power and the marxian concept of class -- The micro-macrological articulation of class -- The micro-macrological articulation of the state. Apparatuses of power versus class structures : Foucault: strategies in relation to "apparatuses of power" -- Marx: strategies in relation to "class structures." Shortcomings and relevance of Marx and Foucault : Class, sex, race: a Foucauldian triptych? -- War as an "analyser of society" -- "Structure" or "system?" Foucault, Habermas and others. 4 Marx's "capitalism" and Foucault's "liberalism" : The historical productivity of "capitalism" : The political contradiction of capitalism -- The productive contradictions of capitalism. The history of "liberalism" : "Discipline" as productive of utility-docility -- Liberalism as productive of utility-freedom -- Liberalism as relation beetween governors and the governed -- "Governmentality" as against self-government. Elements of conclusion: a strategy from below : Marx's strategies -- Foucault's strategies -- Provocation and interpellation -- Strategy and hegemony -- The dispersed order of strategy from below -- Beyond class horizons. References -- Index.