Capitalism and Confinement

“An urgent book—ambitious, relentless, and driven by palpable tension and unbearable grief— Bohrer draws close attention to capitalism’s tendency to separate people through multiple configurations of confinement. From the historic enclosures, to prison, to the family itself, capitalism continually reproduces the methods and means to cleave people away from each other in ways that undermine, if not obliterate, our capabilities of uniting to transform our societies. Abolition communism then is proposed as a political intervention that allows us to overcome and eventually end capitalism.”
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit

“A. J. Bohrer always opens my eyes, fortifies my mind, and straightens my spine, but this book is an especially precious tour de force. Its purview is ambitious, yet the story Bohrer tells is accessible and completely convincing to almost anyone, as well a poetic tearjerker to boot. This beautiful book offers us a soundly backed, crystal clear re-telling of the nature of the proprietary, enclosed, dominated, genocidal world we inhabit (for now). The incisiveness, integrity, and sheer heart of this work will transform you forever.”
—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family

“Bohrer’s insightful and accessible treatise makes the case that any effort to create broad solidarities to resist capitalism requires including a direct response to its confining characteristics. We cannot treat criminalization, border restrictions, and police violence as anything other than core features of capitalist exploitation.”
—Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing