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Michel Foucault, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, argued that power doesn’t just oppress—it produces. It creates knowledge, enforces norms, and defines what we consider true. It operates in schools, hospitals, prisons, and workplaces, not through brute force but through discipline, surveillance, and the structures that tell us what is right, wrong, normal, or deviant.
In his groundbreaking works, Foucault exposed how history is not simply a march toward progress but a shifting battlefield of power struggles.
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