you said reform in your first comment. I think a lot of leftists are pretty flimsy on abolition unfortunately.
but yeah from an abolitionist perspective, simply reducing the scope of the class of unpeople that we lock up forever and ever without abolishing the state's ability to lock people up forever and ever allows for carceral logic to reassert itself with little resistance.
you said reform in your first comment. I think a lot of leftists are pretty flimsy on abolition unfortunately.
but yeah from an abolitionist perspective, simply reducing the scope of the class of unpeople that we lock up forever and ever without abolishing the state's ability to lock people up forever and ever allows for carceral logic to reassert itself with little resistance.
bit idea: get locked up by a revolutionary regime for advocating abolition & be sending letters from jail about how there shouldn't be jail