Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
Movement Memos
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Anti Security and Its Relationship to Abolition
Anti security is a collective projecti of academics in the u k, canada and turkey. They were trying to understand and write about security without becoming part of it. The problem isn't so much what security promises, namely safety, but how it packages that promise. Security communicates an entire world view which forms most of the apparent common sense in contemporary politics. Liberty, security and property are linked concepts. What they were describing was not human nature, the nature of humans in a particular moment of history. They were describing capitalism.
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