« As Milton Friedman, the famous neoliberal guru, explains in his book Capitalism and Freedom, making a profit is the essence of democracy, any government that pursues a policy contrary to the interests of the market is therefore undemocratic, even if it enjoys broad popular support. It is therefore better to confine it to the tasks of protecting private property and executing contracts, while limiting political debate to minor problems, with the real issues - production and distribution of wealth, social organisation - having to be determined by market forces. »

« Foucault regarded scientific knowledge at a given time as a grid of social and intellectual conditions, as a system whose rules allow the creation of new knowledge. In his opinion, as I understand it, human knowledge is transformed by virtue of social conditions and struggles, with one grid replacing the other, thus bringing new possibilities to science. He is, I believe, skeptical of the possibility or legitimacy of an attempt to situate any important origin of human knowledge and knowledge within the human mind, conceived in an a-historical way. »

« I think that scientific creation depends on two facts. On the one hand, an intrinsic property of the mind, and on the other a set of social and intellectual conditions. For me, it is not a question of choosing. To understand a scientific discovery, one must understand the interaction of these two factors. But personally, I'm more interested in the former, while he `Michel Foucault` focuses on the latter. It is, I told you, the limitations of the human spirit that allow the acquisition of knowledge as well as the enormous wealth of scientific knowledge of any kind. »