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As this chapter explains, there are two. In What Is Property? Proudhon formulated the first, that property is theft, which Shaw calls the only truism on the subject. In fact, “Thieves” was the title of Shaw’s first public lecture, in 1888, and he held Proudhon’s view throughout his life. In his play Major Barbara and his Preface to it, he formulated the second fundamental social offence, that the worst crime is poverty, compared to which all other crimes are virtues.
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Dukore, B.F. (2017). The Fundamental Crimes. In: Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62746-5_2
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