Marxism, what you got?

[vulcanlogician]

I agree that crime is a symptom of class struggle.

However, I disagree that if you do away with classes, you do away with crime. Same thing with the government disappearing when communism is established. I think Marx got that wrong too.

In short, I consider myself a Marxist (because I think Marx had good criticisms). But I don't consider myself a communist. 

Even the type of communist who says, "Mao and the Soviets did it wrong."-- while these communists may be correct that Mao/Lenin did it wrong... I still think communism is unrealistic (as Marx envisioned it). People are determined by more than their social conditions. Social conditions are a huge determining factor, yes, but Marx overestimated how much of a factor it is.

Class struggle? Some people are just bad, and enjoy committing crime.

Even if what you say is 100% true, that doesn't mean that crime isn't a symptom of class struggle.

Let's say someone claims: sneezing is a symptom of allergies. It wouldn't challenge the claim to say "dusty rooms make people sneeze."

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Of the number of people currently imprisoned in the us, what percentage do they account for, if you had to guess? On a fundamental level, having the laws doesn't stop them - and getting rid of the laws wouldn't make anyone who wasn't already one of them do whatever shitty thing they do. The rule of law, and notions of some people™ just being bad, are more often tools for class oppression than objective assessments of human nature or necessity.

Nearly all of them.

Wow. How did you come up with that estimate? I can't tell you how much I disagree.

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I mean, really, Ahri, give it some thought. People in poverty are much, much more likely to commit crime. What about poverty makes people "like" to commit crime?