Abolitionism Archives

August 10, 2023

El Poder Revolucionario del Amor

Dado que el deseo es una construcción social, el amor deseado es una acción colectiva hacia nuestra liberación. Deseamos un amor sincero y digno. Deseamos la liberación. Karl Marx afirmó en una ocasión que nuestra conciencia surge de nuestra experiencia como seres sociales. El capitalismo no es sólo un sistema político y económico, como lo entiende la mayoría de la gente, sino que también invade y coloniza nuestra vida cotidiana como estructura social. Como tal, nos esforzamos por construir comunidad, y sobre todo en forma de “familia”. Como afirma M.E. O’Brien en El capitalismo de abolición de la familia y la humanización del cuidado, “a menudo tenemos la sensación de haberla encontrado”[2] Sin embargo, el capitalismo nos impide construir las comunidades y familias que necesitamos.

August 1, 2023

by Tina Trutanich

The Revolutionary Power of Love

Because desire is a social construct, love desired is a collective action toward our liberation. We desire life-giving and honest love. We desire liberation. Karl Marx once stated that our consciousness comes through experience as social beings. Capitalism is not only a political and economic system as most people understand it, but also permeates and colonizes our daily lives as a social structure. As such, we strive to build community, and mostly in the form of “family”. As M.E. O’Brien states in Family Abolition Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, “oftentimes we feel as though we have found it.” Under capitalism, though, we are prevented from constructing the family we need.

December 14, 2021

by Justin Akers Chacón

Rebellion and Reaction: behind the attack on Critical Race Theory

The orchestrated attack on Critical Race Theory (CRT) is one facet of the racist and reactionary response to the decade-long Black Lives Matter struggle and the tremorous uprising of summer 2020. The surges of protest and revolt, taking distinct and elaborating form since the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin, have grown in size, scope, and militancy. These movements have shifted anti-racist class politics and consciousness to the left, culminating into abolitionist cadence at its most organized and advanced points. Over one year on, the unified call for radical justice has been countered by the foul, cacophonous, and rage-induced dysphoria of the rattled ranks of the reactionary right.

December 3, 2021

by Kim Gasper-Rabuck

The Aftermath of the Rittenhouse Acquittal: Report from Wisconsin

After the murder of George Floyd May 25, 2020, millions of people protested—most for the first time in their lives—to say that “Black Lives Matter”. Thousands demonstrated dozens of times across the urban centers of Wisconsin. in Madison, the protests were called by large not-for-profits as well as new, young groups of African- American activists. Hundreds of national guard members were called up by Democratic Party Governor Tony Evers—and supported by Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway—to teargas and arrest Black and white protesters on the street. Much of State Street experienced fires and graffiti as peoples’ rightful rage against overwhelming police and National guard violence erupted.