[lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland reports and pics

[Carrol Cox]

The response on prison abolition is a good example of the gap between a
political and a policy perspective -- and the almost complete irrelevance
(or worse) of the latter to clear thinking about left program. One simply
cannot think about left program while trapped in the policy swamp.

If a new mother ignored the wails of here infant for food and instead spent
her time trying to figure out what college to send her to -- that's what
happens when leftists think about policy.

Carrol

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On 5/2/2012 3:22 AM, Joel Schalit wrote:


> Well, the police were doing their job, so to speak.

Yup.  I think my question now that we're on this is will we always need 
police?  Could police have a different job?

I'm harping on this because whenever "prison aboliton" comes up there's 
a response about what do we do with bad guys (and they're mostly guys).

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