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> On one hand, Reed (perhaps rightly) cautions youths not to create a heroic
> image of a political martyr out of Mumia since, as he notes, "a movement
> built around a single individual can go only so far." <...>
but they can go far enough to provide the basis for your metaphor.
> Well, Mumia may not be the second coming of Karl Marx, but he sure sounds
> smarter & more left-wing than, say, post-secular philosophers whom some
> LBO-talkers worship, as far as I can see. His comments on "prisonization"
> are more astute than Foucault's in _Discipline & Punish_ (which looks a bit
> out of date in America, in that the USA has just about given up on the
> strategies of discipline based upon Benthamite reformism & secular
> reformation of the soul, in its fundamentalist zeal for the war on crime).
dickens's remarks on prisons in the US look a bit out of date, too.
cheers, t