The Importance of Abolition Democracy in the United States

Du Bois's idea of abolition democracy is not just a negative project but as creating new institutions that grant substantive and not just in words emancipation for black people. implicit in this idea of abolitiondemocracy is a critique of the seriously imperfect democracy that we live in. Angela Davis says explicitly that she's thinking of prison at least abolition as building up democratic institutions that eliminate the need for police and prisons in the first place so what this looks like is securing people's basic needs.