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.
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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