Rentier classes accumulate savings through usurious exploitation of underfed peasants

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capital accumulation lowers profit rates unless exploitation intensifies via labour rationalisation; Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141; Liberation promises without material redistribution leave peasants uncomprehending and re-criminalized (+1 more)

Related

• Liberation promises without material redistribution leave peasants uncomprehending and re-criminalized (similarity 0.82)
• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism’s birth required peasants to lose autonomous access to common lands. (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Liberation promises without material redistribution leave peasants uncomprehending and re-criminalized #expands (0.75)
• Capital accumulation lowers profit rates unless exploitation intensifies via labour rationalisation #expands (0.72)
• Bourgeois landed property recast peasant customary rights as theft requiring punishment #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 141