Police System And National Liberty Notes

“A System of Natural Liberty” and or a “General Police System” ● Meaning of police – first used in 15th century Europe, collapse of feudalism… police means policy (welfare, workforce development, law enforcement) ○ Early modern period ○ Modern order of thing was being consolidated and old ways of living were being systematically destroyed ● Smith: requires general police system ● Hobbes: Unrestricted police power ● Locke: more restricted police ● Rousseau: private property protected through social contract (consensual and durable) ● Graber & Wengorw, Kropotkin: human self organize communal life. Policing is unnecessary. Communities police themselves. Strong communities don't need police. ● Moral economies: natural economies of pre capitalist civilizations ○ These are total systems - economic practices are cultural and political ● Capitalist economy ● Adam smith - comparative advantage, free trade, labor theory of value ● Karl marx - commodity circulation and commodity fetishism, labor theory of value (exploitation and surplus value) ● Critique of security or anti-security ○ Not issue with what security promises ○ Progressive deskilling: tech replaces humans ● Freedom is the ability to compete in the market ● Liberty is freedom of property ● Market competition organizes relationships between people ● State won't protect you be your automatically valuable but because you have property that makes your relevant ● The police idea: term means policy ○ Political science ● Stages of police science ○ Mercantilism: placing capital (merchants) in service of the sovereign ○ Camerialism: maximize collective welfare through state regulation of trade and commerce ○ Liberalism: place individual over collective and reversed mercantilism by placing state in service of capital (merchants and, increasingly, industrialists) Liberalism and the Police of Property – (NEOCLAUS) Old idea of police is regulation of policy and government, promotion of good order In late 1700s We live under tyranny of capital Interest used to mean the interest of rulers Before french revolution and english civil war politics was the domain of the king and the nobles, the elites Depoliticized the proreposity claim Individualism is a social relation sharing work you need to survive corporation outside of market relations - a different way of life than living in family or as individuals who interact through exchange of commodities We all own ourselves as poreporty and can sell labor Owner of capital and owner of labor power are not equal people or members of society We are more dependent than peasant, they had their own land and could grow and fama nd forage The order of private porrpoety creates security - marx who syss rich get richer and poor get poorer Systematically recongize our dependence on the market on some kind of freedom Vagurancy is crime of status Maintiaining order of preoperty and relations