Via @Miisaakan in Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism and Abolition
“Because of their nature within the capitalist state, the real alternative to the police is democratic control over all of society from below. Rather than power being abstracted, power is manifest in the collective will of the people.”
“With direct democratic control over social decisions and resources, we would have no need for a separate entity to guarantee contracts and private property, defend its barriers, and enforce subordination to the market for survival.”
