Dennis Claxton wrote:
> I'm harping on this because whenever "prison aboliton" comes up
In Angela Davis' version, prison abolition seems to be little more than a social democratic agenda with a call to arrest and jail many fewer people. She doesn't get much more specific than that, does she?
^^^^^^^ CB: While there are still capitalist states in existence and hangovers from capitalism in society, the transitional period from capitalism to communism ( sometimes termed "socialism") will still be a need for a state, i.e. special oppressive apparatus, including jails and prisons.
White collar theft and corruption will be significantly cut by the abolition of private property in the basic means of production.
Anyway, for one thing, we should start claiming universal health care, as in Canada, France and England, as communism. Socialized medicine is communism. The right-wing is afraid of universal health care because it _is_ one of the features of communism.
Some aspects of the revolution and communist society are actually pretty dull. That's one of the things one learns after a long time in the Communist movement. One of the main obstacles to making revolution is that most of it is very boring, contrary to its legendary image.