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The Usefulness of Crime
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In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head.
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02 December 2025

In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head. Crime, he argues, is not merely a social ill but a paradoxical engine of productivity—spawning law codes, police forces, professors, pulpits, and even literature. With biting irony and dialectical flair, Marx reveals how transgression fuels the very order that condemns it.
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Pages: 8
Publisher: ERIS
Imprint: ERIS
Series: ERIS gems
Publication Date:
02 December 2025
Trim Size: 7.67 X 4.33 in
ISBN: 9781967751525
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary thinker best known for developing the theory of historical materialism. He co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels, calling for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the emancipation of the working class.