Michel Foucault (1926-1984), on the course Society must be defended (1976), explains the relationship between biopower and racism. Among the types of racism practiced since the nineteenth century, Foucault includes socialism, and says that there is a kind of evolutionary and biological racism in it that works fully in relation to the mentally ill, the criminals, the political opponents etc., that was always necessary when socialism had to insist on the issue of the fight against the enemy and the elimination of the adversary within the capitalist society, and appeared because it was the only way, in this case, to think of a reason to kill the opponent. On the other hand, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) published in 1947 the book Humanism ...