ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the problem of political corruption and how the discourse and legal statutes addressing it. Both illustrate the fetishized nature of the public sphere and function as symptoms of this public fetish in that the state must constantly police itself and engender practices that normalize the presence of the private in that which we term the public. The political corruption reveals that corruption is a structural attribute of all politics in bourgeois society. Its discourse surrounding political corruption is which distinguishes what is a normal presence of private interests in the public sphere and what is a pathological presence of the private within the public. The rules of separation found in Leviticus and those found in Washington, DC are based on attempts to formalize and ritualize the meanings and categorizations through which society maps its understandings and perceptions.
