Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities

Evidence

The least-favoured strata of the population did not have, in principle, any privileges: but they benefited, within the margins of what was imposed on them by law and custom, from a space of tolerance, gained by force or obstinacy; and this space was for them so indispensable a condition of existence that they were often ready to rise up to defend it; the attempts that were made periodically to reduce it, by reviving old laws or by improving the methods of apprehending, provoked popular disturbances, just as attempts to reduce certain privileges disturbed the nobility, the clergy and the bourgeoisie. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117; Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117; Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435 (+2 more)

Related

• Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites (similarity 0.86)
• Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution (similarity 0.85)
• An underprivileged mob can create a lower class through sheer violence (similarity 0.84)
• Bourgeois economic growth depended on tolerated popular illegalities (similarity 0.84)
• The law prosecuted lower-class crime while sparing refined upper-class spoliation (similarity 0.83)
• Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society (similarity 0.83)
• Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime (similarity 0.81)
• Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Bourgeois economic growth depended on tolerated popular illegalities #corroborates (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 140
• Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138
• Bourgeoisie aestheticized crime to mask their own practiced illegalities #corroborates (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435