The prison industrial complex is made of land, labor, money, capital and the state's capacity to organize these things. What happens when labors surplused? What has happened to the composition of public sector workers? There are so many questions that we can then turn our attention to that might give us some stronger indication of where and how to fight. Because the only purpose of doing any of this analysis at all is figuring out where andhow to fight.
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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