Abolishing The Police Means Overthrowing The State

by | Nov 27, 2025

Via @Miisaakan in Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism and Abolition

“There is a third path to abolition: social revolution. Abolishing the police requires the overthrow of the state.”

“At a fundamental level, states are bodies of armed men with separate, counterposed interests to the people living in a society because they serve the needs of capital: rebellion control, market dependence, and social order.”

The state’s primary agent of coercive force and violence is the police.