[lbo-talk] Close the Prisons Re: Irish priests beat, raped children

[Carrol Cox]

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> 
> "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of
> religion." Both are symptoms of fundamental underlying problems, and
> closing prisons isn't necessarily going to work any better than our
> current society's attempts at closing brothels. 

Two points.

1.	The concern is the building of a strong and militant left movement.
That involves concrete evils to fight against.

2.	We don't _know_ what will and will not "work" and to what extent
within the present system. Are we supposed to sit on the ground  and
tell sad stories of the death of kings until Revolution drops from the
sky?

Carrol