All kinds of factors of production have been idled, set aside. Money circulating in the form of the social wage through the state depends on a certain legitimacy that's determined by any number of social actors but certainly not by popular, democratic agreement. That then this churn of unused or idle labor land money, capital throws already existing institutions deeper crisis.
What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar, who edited the new collection Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation.
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