For me, I think his whole idea of governmentality got appropriated by other scholars in some really poor ways because only part of his lectures on it were published for a long time. But also don't really like it to begin with, he saw neoliberalism in a very weird way that was positive kinda, IDK interpretations of Foucault are super varied. He does offer important questions though that Marxists (or Leninists anyway) need to consider more than I think they have in the past, as a big part of what he says is that forms of power will always reproduce themselves, even if we were to seize state power and attempt to re-make society. Again of course if you ask 10 different people what Foucault meant you'll also get 10 different answers. Been thinking about it because he came up in a book on cybernetic governmentality (a concept I don't the author made a good case for) in the soviet union I had to read for a class.
For me, I think his whole idea of governmentality got appropriated by other scholars in some really poor ways because only part of his lectures on it were published for a long time. But also don't really like it to begin with, he saw neoliberalism in a very weird way that was positive kinda, IDK interpretations of Foucault are super varied. He does offer important questions though that Marxists (or Leninists anyway) need to consider more than I think they have in the past, as a big part of what he says is that forms of power will always reproduce themselves, even if we were to seize state power and attempt to re-make society. Again of course if you ask 10 different people what Foucault meant you'll also get 10 different answers. Been thinking about it because he came up in a book on cybernetic governmentality (a concept I don't the author made a good case for) in the soviet union I had to read for a class.
Here's one answer dealing with neoliberalism:
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/michel-foucault-neoliberalism-friedrich-hayek-milton-friedman-gary-becker-minoritarian-governments