> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:54 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> It hadn't occurred to me before, but "militant" (or sounding "militant')
> isn't a very useful concept. It deflects from both program and intellectual
> precision or clarity. She of coursed made no references at all at how it
> would work - that would have been silly. I suppose if we made a city more or
> less ungovernable until it closed its jails and took the cops off the street
> they would work out something. Jails & cops are, after all, a rather recent
> phenomenon in human history.
>
> That old demand for "how would you do it" simply kills both thought and
> action.
>
> She did make it clear that prisons as we know them are unacceptable even for
> the really vicious.
>
> Carrol
>
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Angela Davis on Prisons & Police
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>
>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Some years ago when I proposed the slogan, Abolish the Prison System,
> among
>> the 'rebuttals' was one citing Davis as proposing reforms rather than
>> abolishing.
>>
>> Well. She spoke here tonight, and her first word on prisons was that they
>> could not be reformed; we had to demand their abolition.
>>
>> Ditto for Police.
>
> That sounds very militant. Did she have any more to say about how it would
> work? Because she didn't in her book on the topic.
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