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Toward Abolition: Building a World Without Police or Prisons

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Josh Briond -- from "Millennials Are Killing Capitalism" and "Black Alliance for Peace" -- joins Breht to discuss prison and police abolitionism.

Follow Josh on Twitter

Follow Radical Theory

Check out Josh's writings at the Hampton Institute

Outro music 'End of Daze' (feat. Jurdan Bryant, Mereba, and Hollywood JB) by Spillage Village, EARTHGANG, and JID

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

0:09.2

On today's episode we have on Josh from Millennials are killing capitalism, also at Queer

0:14.7

Socialism on Twitter, one of my favorite Twitter accounts to follow.

0:18.0

And today we're just going to be talking and thinking through the implications and nuances

0:22.8

of abolitionism.

0:24.4

You know, police in prison abolition has been a hot topic recently.

0:28.4

It's being picked up by corporate media and simultaneously watered down.

0:32.0

It's being co-opted by certain liberal forces.

0:35.2

And so we thought at this moment in time it would be helpful for us to provide something

0:40.7

for people to grasp on to and try to think through the implications of abolitionism.

0:46.0

And I think that every principle, you know, Marxist, socialist communists needs to also

0:51.3

be an abolitionist.

0:53.0

And sometimes it's hard to know exactly what that means starting where we are in this

0:57.0

hellhole dystopia known as American capitalism in 2020.

1:01.1

So we hope this conversation is helpful and at the end there's a bunch of recommendations

1:04.7

and resources for people to check out if they want to learn more.

1:07.7

So without further ado, let's get into this conversation with Josh on the implications,

1:11.7

nuances and complexities of abolitionism.

1:14.8

Enjoy.

1:16.3

I'm Josh or otherwise of queer socialism on Twitter.

1:28.1

I co-hosts the podcast.

1:30.1

Millenance of killing capitalism also am involved with Black folks for peace and anti-imperialist

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