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We have to stop conflating this with abolition. If I want to abolish slavery, or abolish the death penalty, it's not that I want to be the one to decide who is subjected to those things, it's that I don't want anyone to be subjected to those things.
That's abolition, everything else is a degree of reform.
Why yes I do want a stateless classless moneyless society. I definitely welcome some unforeseen development in social relations that demobilizes the bourgeois remnants without force, but whatever one calls the proletarian bodies that forcibly restrain the bourgeois remnants during a socialist transition, they have been key to thwarting counterrevolution in the past and present.
I absolutely don't imagine the existing bourgeois police and prison infrastructure being suitable for capture though; it must be dismantled.
What are the best books on police and prison abolition?
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