Thus economic exploitation required a prior “political investment of the body” (Foucault 1977, p.25).By this theoretical reorientation Foucault hoped to complement and enlarge Marx’ critique or political economy with a “crinque on pontical anatomy” In this studies on governmentality and his courses at the College de France on neo-liberal reason, Foucault takes this form of analysis one step further, combining the"microphysics of power” with the macropolitical question of the state. Again, he does not limit the field of power relations to the government of the state; on the contrary, what Foucault is interested in is the question how power relations historically could concentrate in the form of the state without ever being reducible to it. Following this line of inquiry, Foucault sees the state a"nothing more that the mobile effect of a regime of multiple governmentality It is necessary to address from an exterior point of view the question of the state, it is necessary to analyse the problem of the state by referring to the practices of government" (Foucault 1984, p.21). When Foucault speaks of the"governmentalization of the state" (1991a,p. 103), he does not assume that government is a technique that could be applied or used by state authorities or apparatuses; instead he comprehends the state itself as a tactics of government, as a dynamic form and historic stabilisation of societal power relations. Thus governmentality is “at once internal and external to the state, since it is the tactics of government which make possible the continual definition and redefinition of what is within the competence of the state and what is not, the public versus the private, and so on; thus the state can only be understood in its survival and its limits on the general tactics of govermentality” (1991a, p.103).