Property May Not Be Theft, but It’s Not NOT Theft As nationwide protests destroy buildings, monuments, and police stations, it’s time to get the facts straight. by R.H. Lossin, Nation magazine, July 28 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/property-capitalism-segregation-protests/
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:30 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > The debate over the causes of mass incarceration, and its class and > racial roots, is crucial not only because it gives us an insight into > the current rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, but also because it > forces us to look more deeply into the persistence of racism throughout > American life. At the same time, despite the revelations of the depth of > racism in the US and, indeed, across much of the “western” world, rooted > in slavery and colonialism brought to light by the Black Lives Matter > movement, there has been a growing tendency on the social democratic > left to demote racism as a factor in mass incarceration and the criminal > justice system. Rather than looking at incarceration itself, here I will > examine the race and class origins and practices of policing in the US > that inevitably underlie trends in incarceration and criminal justice in > general. > > My point of departure is a series of articles written by Cedric Johnson > in New Politics and Catalyst, but could just as well address the works > of several others writing on this subject in the last couple of years > that contest the idea that race and racism is at the heart of mass > incarceration.1 > > https://spectrejournal.com/the-roots-of-racist-policing/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#73): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/73 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/75855530/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
