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Behind the Bastards
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The Economic Origin of Mass Incarceration
Sally Kohn: Both the welfare state and the prison complex are just different forms of counterinsurgency. She says it is actually genuinely cheaper for the bourgeoisie to run a prison state than it is to run a welfare state. Kohn: Social democracy was first implemented by Bismarck, like specifically as a way to buy workers off from carrying out a socialist revolution.
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