Bourgeois economic growth depended on tolerated popular illegalities

Evidence

In short, the reciprocal interplay of illegalities formed part of the political and economic life of society. Or rather, a number of transformations (the abeyance into which Colbert’s regulations had fallen, for example, the non-observance of customs barriers within the kingdom, the breakdown of guild practices) had operated in the breach that was being widened every day by popular illegality; the bourgeoisie had needed these transformations; and economic growth was due, in part, to them. Tolerance then became encouragement. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 140

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435; Rising wealth raises tolerance for violence but intolerance for property crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 131; Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138 (+6 more)

Related

• Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society (similarity 0.89)
• Eighteenth-century popular illegality shifted from attacking rights to attacking property (similarity 0.87)
• Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities (similarity 0.85)
• Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime (similarity 0.84)
• Rising wealth raises tolerance for violence but intolerance for property crime (similarity 0.84)
• Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities (similarity 0.84)
• Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft (similarity 0.82)
• Elite circles reframe as fashionable vice what the masses punish as crime. (similarity 0.82)
• Bourgeois society admitted Jews as exotic and entertainingly vicious (similarity 0.79)
• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139
• Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 143
• Eighteenth-century popular illegality shifted from attacking rights to attacking property #exemplifies (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141
• Enclosing delinquency in a supervised group neutralizes broader popular illegality #qualifies (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 428