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oh shitttt: "Liberals instead demand better education and
job opportunities to keep youth safe from police and prisons. Those decriers forget that education and work are both the ancestors of prison and its logical descendants." Dixie_Be_Damned
job opportunities to keep youth safe from police and prisons. Those decriers forget that education and work are both the ancestors of prison and its logical descendants." Dixie_Be_Damned
"Those who complain of the 'school-to-prison pipeline,' forget that with regard to the invention of mass compulsory public education there has never been anything 𝘣𝘶𝘵 a school-to-prison pipeline."
"The revolutionary did not have to go through any series of transitions as a worker or self-conscious individual to revolt, and there was no waiting for the material conditions; every moment held the potential for the time of this world to end and another to interfere and begin."
“One can draw an unbroken line from the fugitive slave bounty hunters of chattel slavery, to the Confederate Home Guards of the civil war, to the KKK and local sheriffs of Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods and then finally to the police departments of the modern era.”
On the rise of convict labor by the end of the civil war:
"Convict labor was significantly cheaper than waged labor, and relied on much of the same white paternalism common in chattel slavery..."
"Convict labor was significantly cheaper than waged labor, and relied on much of the same white paternalism common in chattel slavery..."
"Convicts could appeal their cases to white benefactors such as well-known lawyers or industrialists, who would in many ways act as their 'owners' through a process of appeals for pardon or clemency."
"On the night of July 14, 1891, a band of about one hundred armed coal miners and local citizens marched on a newly built prison stockade owned by the Tennessee Coal Mining Company. [They] compelled the guards to release the forty inmates imprisoned there ..."
"Over the next thirteen months, the workers would repeat this scene over and over, eventually torching company property, looting company stores, and aiding prisoners' escapes."
"While it's true that some of the largest + most destructive of the urban uprisings of the 1960s occurred in Watts, Newark, and Detroit this narrative obscures the numerous rebellions that occurred in the South, often in direct conflict with the Civil Rights orgs there .."
"The State's playbook for prison rebellions, which themselves can increasingly be seen to represent social rupture in general, uses dialogue with insurgents merely as a tool with which to mobilize its own material forces, to 'catch up to the situation'."
"This doesn't mean rebels shouldn't articulate specific grievances to each other or society at large when relevant, or that rebellion without a process of negotiation can't equally (and even unintentiaonally) result in changes/ improvement of immediate conditions ..."
"...The center of gravity is a refusal to engage in dialogue with the state on its terms."
"Always the central contest is a more general one between the power of those below with the authority of those above, a struggle for that which can be neither demanded nor given but only seized."
"History is not 'the past' but our own relationship to that past; it is not a mass of data to be entered and processed but an infinite set of revolutionary possibilities, which arise again to communicate themselves during every new outburst of struggle and conflict."
"One of the consequences of the northern-southern, dual ruling class was the hybrid system of discipline and control that developed first after the Civil War.."
"Certain structures of law and order imposed from the North joined with the traditions of vigilantism and private discipline inherited from the plantation system, all of which were directly injected into new forms of policing and incarceration that continue to this day."
"An immediate possibility for new social relations .. starts to close when time restarts, when the old normality is allowed to return or a new normal is forcibly imposed, but the possibility remains with us ever after. This is 𝘰𝘶𝘳 accumulation."
