This article provides a brief discussion of the nature of power in capitalist societies, and then uses the practice of ‘blacklisting’ to show how this power has been, and continues to be, exercised to protect the powerful and victimise the weak. There is a useful discussion of what is meant by ‘corporate crime’ and the concept of ‘bourgeois ideological mystification’ is introduced.
This article is obviously relevant to the topic of ‘Crime and deviance’, but with its discussion of an aspect of Marxist theory and an interesting case study, it provides essential reading for all students.
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