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Are you also an abolitionist? How do you see abolition and socialism related to another? (self.socialism)

submitted 1 year ago by mambabasa to c/socialism@beehaw.org

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For me, it's pretty clear that police and prisons reinforce class society and are things that factor into proletarianization. Therefore there can be no socialism without abolition. A corollary states that socialist projects that reinstituted police and prisons (gulags and checka anyone?) couldn't be socialist because by using police and prisons it reinforced proletarianization and class relations.

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[–] mambabasa 3 points 1 year ago

This is the “how do we deal with harm?” question that gets brought up a lot. The fact of the matter is that criminalized communities such as Black, Indigenous, Queer, and sex worker communities have been dealing with harm without the state for generations. It's a matter of centering these harm reductionist and non-statist forms of dealing and managing harm and decentering the state's criminal punishment system. It's not as if we have nothing to work with—everything we need is already here.