According to Marx, security is the supreme social concept of civil society; it is the

concept of police. Marxist focused on the administrative role of police and security in the
protection of private property; historical rise or recent resurgence of private security and
its institutional and membership conflation with public policing; the class position of the
police officer in capitalist society; and the intimate connection of policing with state
intelligence, reactionary; politics, and the undermining of revolutionary movement,
including labor organizations. It also includes initiatives to ensure the protection of
individual liberty in the face of expanding surveillance, to guarantee fair and equitable
treatment for all citizens regardless of race.
Marx also stated that security is a dangerous illusion and identifies it as a blockage on
politics, diverting attention from exploitation, alienation and material inequality, and also
fostering complicity with police power. Security grafts to hunger into food security;
imperialism to energy security; globalization into supply chain security.
Security makes bourgeois all that is inherently communal, alienating from natural or
social responses toward the language of state rationality, corporate interest, and
individual egoism. The effect is instead of sharing, they horde.
Security in Marxism is being critiqued for it being a sort of special commodity in
capitalist relations, playing a pivotal role in the exploitation, alienation and the
immiseration of workers. The ruling class will always allow security to triumph over
liberty because, from the start, “liberty has never been intended as a counter-weight to
security. It is always liberty for the sake of security. Liberty has always been security’s
lawyer. Security placed on the creation and maintenance of the wage-labour system by
tracing the historical formation of police and arguing that the core compulsion to create
and exploit productive workers 2 continues unabated in contemporary imperial and
domestic modes of pacification. These elements manifest as overlapping strata of (1)
dispossession, (2) exploitation, and (3) commodification. While their targets of
intervention may vary, these three strata produce and rely on: (a) violence or the threat
of violence; (b) the legal, institutional, and police subversion and suppression of non-
capitalist forms of subsistence and exchange; (c) the circulation of “moral education” for
ideologically entrenching and maintaining pro-capitalist economic practices and norms
among workers; and, finally, (d) the establishment of an institutional and ideological
ethic of security that identifies threats to any of these aspects as threats to the state of
security and the private property relations it supports.

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