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The Importance of Dismantling the State
I think one thing that I really appreciated about the book is you lay out this critique and you then talk about how sort of all of this forces us to confront the question of like, well, can the state actually even perform any of these kinds of functions without surveillance, police, punishment, coercion, neglect, abandonment? That's a really good question to ask yourself. The live question and the lively debate among abolitionists that I certainly don't pretend to have the answers to or have it anyway resolved. And so we put our discussion tool that has some questions in it to sort of aid us in thinking these things through. We need to do that while also contending with the reality and the