There was a comment here by one 'minitel' (a new, probably throw-away account) on Foucault's support for the Iranian revolution and the fact that the post-modern movement - for whom Foucault is one of the prime thinkers - is currently making headway into academia, mostly within the humanities but their reach seems to be spreading. Given that this article deals with Foucault it is relevant to identify where Foucalt's work currently stands in society. The author pointed at Jordan Peterson - a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who ended up as the focal point of a discussion on the use of 'gender-neutral' pronouns due to his refusal to use what he described as politically-motivated, state-mandated non-sensical words. Peterson has gone on a crusade against postmodernism which he claims to be an extension of Marxism. For those who want to inform themselves on the criticism against postmodernism Peterson's explanations are a good starting point. He gave a lecture at Harvard titled "Mask of Compassion, Post-modernism and neo-marxism" where he clearly sets out his criticism against this philosophy: