So, first of all, an essential Capitalism (Ie capitalisme), with its logic, contradictions, and impasses does not exist. Second, it now becomes perfectly possible to invent or devise a capitalism different from the first, different from the capitalism we have known, and whose essential principle would be a reorganization of the institutional framework in terms of-the Rule-.oflaw, and which would consequently discard the whole system of administrative or legal interventionism which states have assumed the right to impose, be it in the form of the nineteenth century protectionist economy or of the planned economy ofthe twentieth century.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 940