Eighteenth-century popular illegality shifted from attacking rights to attacking property
Evidence
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the process tended to be reversed. First, with the general increase in wealth, but also with the sudden demographic expansion, the principal target of popular illegality tended to be not so much rights, as goods: pilfering and theft tended to replace smuggling and the armed struggle against the tax agents. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141; Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138; Bourgeois economic growth depended on tolerated popular illegalities — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 140 (+3 more)
Related
- Bourgeois economic growth depended on tolerated popular illegalities (similarity 0.87)
- Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien RĂ©gime society (similarity 0.87)
- Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime (similarity 0.86)
- Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft (similarity 0.86)
- Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment (similarity 0.84)
- Rising wealth raises tolerance for violence but intolerance for property crime (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft
#expands(0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 143 - Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime
#expands(0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139