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Abolition Socialism
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Available on Jun 22, 2027 | 208 Pages
An urgent intervention into US debates on police abolition from the bestselling author of The End of Policing.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, there was a surge of demands for police abolition and radical policing reform in the US. This was not just rhetorical – across the country, cities and towns instituted new programs and passed laws aimed at curbing the power of police to act with impunity. Recently, significant segments of the US Left, including powerful elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, have rescinded or considerably moderated their previous support for police and prison abolition. From the bestselling author of The End of Policing, this book argues that even if “woke 1 was crazy,” the project to radically reform policing and incarceration must remain an essential component of any project to build socialism.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, there was a surge of demands for police abolition and radical policing reform in the US. This was not just rhetorical – across the country, cities and towns instituted new programs and passed laws aimed at curbing the power of police to act with impunity. Recently, significant segments of the US Left, including powerful elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, have rescinded or considerably moderated their previous support for police and prison abolition. From the bestselling author of The End of Policing, this book argues that even if “woke 1 was crazy,” the project to radically reform policing and incarceration must remain an essential component of any project to build socialism.
