i do not want reactionary trans women to be V-coded in place of poor ones. i do not want conservative South African migrants stripped from their families at the border in place of Hispanic ones. i do not want black capitalists kept in former cotton plantations in place of poor ones. If you want to advocate for re-education camps, i’m right behind you. The word ‘prison’ in the United States of America implies a specific institution with a specific history, inseparable from the most depraved aspects of the country.

History shows that revolution will need to be defended from reaction and counter-attack, from without and within. That is not an excuse to take the tools of the old regime and whip them around. A hypothetical Turtle Island Liberation Army would inevitably come across stores of depleted uranium and white phosphorus. The responsible thing to do would be to safely dispose of the toxins, not hurl them into more soil and more children because the reactionaries live there. i see the carceral state, with its generational legacy of processing migrants, queers, the unhoused, and the mentally ill, as the social policy equivalent of white phosphorus.