shag wrote:
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I've never
> read her on prisons -- she notes that there is a double-edginess to the
> prison and u.s. democracy.
I've both read her and heard her speak on prisons. That is my point of departure for arguing that one benchmark of the appearance of an actual left in the u.S. will be that one of its central demands will be for the abolition of prisons. There is no way to reform that system, for a number of reasons. And prisons create far more crime than they prevent. Also abolishing prisons would carry with it the abolition of the war on drugs at the same time it would contribute to solving the fiscal problems of the states, counties, and municipalities.
Carrol