With regard to all forms of real socialism, of every-socialism implemented in policy, we should not ask what text it refers to, whether or not it betrays the text, whether or not-it conforms to' the text, or whether it is true or false. We should simply and always ask socialism: So, what is this necessarily extrinsic governmentality that makes you function and only within which you can function? … Is there a governmentality appropriate to socialism? What governmentality is possible as a strictly;intrinsically, and autonomously socialistgovernmentality? In any case, we know only that if there is a really socialist governmentality, then it is not hidden within socialism and its texts. It cannot be deduced from them. It must be invented.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 586