Ruthe: The prison industrial complex is an attempt to fix major problems that appear materially and ideologically as surpluses of finance, capital, land, labor and state capacity. Ruthe: When a system goes into a crisis, it means that it can't get through to its next day or its next round of whatever that it used to do. And that surplus means that people time is no longer needed within the formerly existing social system.
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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