how it differs in other societies or ideologies. Take the metaphor
of the 'carceral archipelago' borrowed from Foucault and used by
him to designate the way in which punishments are dispersed, yet
cover the whole of a society. For some years now, this metaphor
has been used to conceptualize Western control systems, and I
believe that it is a good metaphor. But we have forgotten its
origin in the real Gulag Archipelago. Foucault himself (in a way
which does not endear him to orthodox Marxists) does not forget.
He calls on radicals to confront the actual Gulag not by searching
Marx and Lenin for errors, condemnations, deviations, misunderstandings
and betrayals of theory and practice. For him, it is