Morning Comrades.
After Monday’s caffeinated rage dispatch on the Police I wanted to offer a more principled, more pedagogical approach to the question of the police, as we are subjected here in the West under Capitalism. Even if this now may seem more approachable to our masters, be extremely clear that this work and language only exists to mask my rage at the reality the Capitalist Ruling Class has created. On a side note, there is no deeper truth to what anyone says merely because it is dressed up in “respectable” language, it is vitally important that decorum and presentation are a cage built by them to allow tension to ease in our continuing class war.
Nevertheless, centuries of work exist on the question of the, and, a police- including its abolition, the question of majority rule violence and so much more. It’s a subject easily as old as marxist economic theory and today’s dispatch is going to serve as an introduction to both abolitionist and marxist theory on the subject with a short highlight on work that deals with its practical applications, today.
Importantly, all man made constructs are just that and can be just as easily be undone. In David Graeber’s words:
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
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