Liberation promises without material redistribution leave peasants uncomprehending and re-criminalized

Evidence

Furthermore, as it was acquired in part by the bourgeoisie, now free of the feudal burdens that once weighed upon it, landed property became absolute property: all the tolerated ‘rights’ that the peasantry had acquired or preserved (the abandonment of old obligations or the consolidation of irregular practices: the right of free pasture, wood-collecting, etc.) were now rejected by the new owners who regarded them quite simply as theft (thus leading, among the people, to a series of chain reactions of an increasingly illegal, or, if one prefers the term, criminal kind: breaches of close, the theft or killing of cattle, fires, assaults, murders (cf. Festy and Agulhon). The illegality of rights, which often meant the survival of the most deprived, tended, with the new status of property, to become an illegality of property. It then had to be punished. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

California’s new prisons are sited on devalued rural land, most, in fact on formerly irrigated agricultural acres … The State bought land sold by big landowners. And the State assured the small, depressed towns now shadowed by prisons that the new, recession-proof, non-polluting industry would jump-start local redevelopment. … But, as Gilmore points out, neither the jobs nor the more general economic revitalization promised by prisons has occurred. At the same time, this promise of progress helps us to understand why the legislature and California’s voters decided to approve the construction of all these new prisons. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 26 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rentier classes accumulate savings through usurious exploitation of underfed peasants; Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141; Prisons promised rural economic revival but delivered neither jobs nor revitalization — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 26 (+1 more)

Related

• Prisons promised rural economic revival but delivered neither jobs nor revitalization (similarity 0.84)
• Rentier classes accumulate savings through usurious exploitation of underfed peasants (similarity 0.82)
• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141
• Prisons promised rural economic revival but delivered neither jobs nor revitalization #corroborates (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 26