An underprivileged mob can create a lower class through sheer violence

Evidence

There was agitation against the difference in penalties according to social class: in 1781, the parish priest of Champré had been killed by the lord of the manor, and an attempt was made to declare the murderer insane; ‘the peasants, who were extremely attached to their pastor, were furious and had at first seemed ready to lay violent hands upon their lord and to set fire to the castle … Everyone protested, and rightly, against the indulgence of the minister who deprived justice of the means of punishing so abominable a crime’ (Hardy, IV, 394). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

‘Licensed prostitution, direct material theft, house-breaking, murder, brigandage for the lower classes; while skilful spoliation, indirect, refined theft, clever exploitation of human cattle, carefully planned and brilliantly executed betrayals, transcendent pieces of sharp practice in short, all the truly elegant vices and lucrative crimes which the law is far too polite to interrupt remain the monopoly of the upper classes’ — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 572 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The law prosecuted lower-class crime while sparing refined upper-class spoliation — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 572; Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117; Cultivation and repression both rest on inherited class violence.

Related

• Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution (similarity 0.90)
• Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities (similarity 0.84)
• Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites (similarity 0.83)
• The law prosecuted lower-class crime while sparing refined upper-class spoliation (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution #corroborates (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117
• The law prosecuted lower-class crime while sparing refined upper-class spoliation #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 572