Ridding society of the police is both a practical demand in the struggle against oppression, and an integral part of socialist revolution. brian bean’s new book, Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, is an excellent intervention in the debates on a future without state violence. As bean argues, the movement to abolish the police is really the movement to abolish capitalism.
Neurodivergent liberation is inextricably bound up with the fight to abolish the police and build a socialist system. Half of the victims of US police murders are neurodivergent or disabled. Because our brains function differently and we process and react to information in ways outside the norm, we’re more likely to be seen as a threat and face brutalization and arrest.
While recent calls for police and prison abolitionism should be lauded for their radicalism, in the long run the abolition movement needs to go beyond liberal or anarchist politics and look towards socialist revolution and the smashing of the bourgeois state.
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