Crime

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Crime is any action that the ruling class considers unacceptable.^[1]

References

↑ “Or again, speaking more plainly, the Marxian formula states "that the state is an organ of oppression of one class by another; that it sets up an order which legalizes and consolidates this oppression modifying the conflict of classes." Thus since the state is an organ of class domination, and crime necessarily, by the same definition, is the commission of an act against the interests of the ruling class, a criminal code would be a formulation of penalties imposed for such acts.”

Mary Stevenson Callcott (1935). Russian Justice: 'The Soviet Theory of Crime'.

[1] “Or again, speaking more plainly, the Marxian formula states "that the state is an organ of oppression of one class by another; that it sets up an order which legalizes and consolidates this oppression modifying the conflict of classes." Thus since the state is an organ of class domination, and crime necessarily, by the same definition, is the commission of an act against the interests of the ruling class, a criminal code would be a formulation of penalties imposed for such acts.”

Mary Stevenson Callcott (1935). Russian Justice: 'The Soviet Theory of Crime'.

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