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Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

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Is the Economic Foundation of the Prison System a Function of Politics?

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Ruthi, Brenna and albertowat why is it the economic foundation of the prison system that exposes its fundamental political contingency? Quotation reminds me of the idea of the claswitian and then the reversals of the klaswitian. And how we can think about warfare as a class war, or race war,. You know, these other conceptions of war as being a continuation of politics by other means.

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