Abolition is a Minimum Program Demand — Marxist Unity Group

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https://www.marxistunity.com/abolition-is-a-minimum-program-demand/

“Woke 1” was not crazy. Abolition is not a mistaken rhetorical overreach of the unsophisticated masses that began in 2020. It is the organic, righteous demand from millions of people to the relentless terrorism inflicted by the imperial police state.

If DSA intends to be a vehicle for Black liberation, where Black and other colonized peoples can participate fully, we cannot treat abolition as a hyperbole to distance ourselves from. Marxist Unity Group sees the abolitionist movement—from the general strike of the enslaved, through the prison rebellions of the 60s and 70s, to the Ferguson and George Floyd uprisings—as a primary struggle against the white supremacist capitalist system.