
The Alabama prison uprising w/ Jared Ware
The East is a Podcast
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Is That the Dream of Capitalism
The American system is what's so genius about it is that they capture as many human lives as possible. The job of the police is to recruit people for these institutions, right, and it's recruitment police recruit to the like industrial like labor machine called incarceration. There wasn't money being made off of the kids the way that the prisoners make money in 18th century because there wasn't a capitalist industry on their side. In some ways inmates are considered to be Like the lowest sector of American society and yet they generate so much wealth for people,. I mean that's what's going to make abolition a huge obstacle if you're trying to get rid of them.
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