We Are All Deviants Now | Taylor/Taylor (Autumn 1968)

"Our concern here is with crime. Crime is not only a more popular activity with the working class than strike action, it may also be more costly and less predictable for capitalist society. Socialists have often excluded this widespread human activity from their political concern either on the grounds that criminals are members of the lumpenproletariat, incapable even of a class consciousness, much less of a revolutionary potential or because they regard the law as being a reflection of the dominant interests of the ruling class. In other words, criminologists may be viewed by Marxists as concerned with one small area of behaviour, infractions against the bourgeois law – whilst the fundamental crime of capitalist society, the expropriation of property, is not in their syllabus."

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