Anti. šŸ˜Sep 7, 2024

"They claim that only the State is capable of creating ā€œsomething durable enough and responsive enough and pure enough to make the flourishing of life possibleā€”including for people we despise.ā€ Again I call bullshit. The State is the main force that occupies our liberated spaces, closes our free schools, criminalizes our mutual aid networks, pushes through the projects that poison our air and water, and that colonized the whole world in the first place."

https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/the-death-of-abolition

#Abolition

The death of abolition

or: toothless, broke, and heartbroke

Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Show threadAnti. šŸ˜Sep 7, 2024

Thanks for this rant, dear @PeterGelderloos. I also had to stop watching one of the panels on abolition at the #Socialism2024 conference, when it made me scream at my screen, just before i started to insult them as reformist shills of the state.

But, there were also other panels, that i thought were worth watching. The one by Death Panel, offering a wider context on health and abolition, and the one with Sarah Jaffe, Kelly Hayes and especially Eman Abdelhadi, with a focus on grieving.

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"Abolish the police and prisons without abolishing the State? Seriously? How out of touch do you have to be? The police arenā€™t just a multiracial gang of highly armed, highly paid sociopaths waiting around to torture and execute people from marginalized and oppressed groups (though they are definitely that). The police are there in the hospitals when the doctors check our gender identity, our education level, our mental health history, our race, >
Sep 7, 2024 at 7:58amWeb
Show threadAnti. šŸ˜Sep 7, 2024

as they decide how much to listen to us and how much to treat us like slabs of meat. Prison is present in the school system as they categorize you, discipline you, track you, and itā€™s definitely present when they haul you into the office and search your backpack after you start questioning the hypocrisy at the center of it all."
~ Peter Gelderloos

#Abolition #SmashTheState

Show threadAnti. šŸ˜Sep 12, 2024

Yup. RWG continues with the strange strawman arguments against anarchists in this interview (in German) in Swiss newspaper WoZ, statists gonna statist:

https://www.woz.ch/2437/ruth-wilson-gilmore/abolitionismus-ist-eine-aufforderung-internationa-listisch-zu-denken

Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Ā«Abolitionismus ist eine Aufforderung, internationaĀ­listisch zu denkenĀ»

Nicht nur in den USA setzt die Politik zunehmend auf Polizei, Grenzen und Strafjustiz. Die US-Geografin Ruth Wilson Gilmore erklƤrt, warum Linke das grundsƤtzlich bekƤmpfen sollten und wieso Abolitionismus mehr ist als eine historische Bewegung zur Abschaffung der Sklaverei.