Thread by @MAKCapitalism

Today we're doing a thread on abolition. 2020 was certainly a year of abolition entering mainstream discourse on a large scale, with all the contradictions that creates. These are some of our favorite abolition convos from 2020:

Our two part conversation with Fred Moten & Stefano Harney was our most downloaded ever. Revisited their abolitionist text The Undercommons in a time of pandemic and rebellion.

pt 1: …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/wildcat-the-to…

pt 2: …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/give-away-your…

During Black August we sat down with two prisoner movement historians and abolitionist organizers and thinkers in their own right @dnbrgr and @thetous to talk history and present of US prisoner movements
…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/dan-berger-and…

#8ToAbolition was the response of multiple organizers and activists to the ill conceived set of liberal reforms known as '8 Can't Wait,' it sparked discussion around the country on what a world without prisons and police could look like
…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/8toabolition-f…

Back in the pre-pandemic 2020, we caught up with @garrett_felber to talk about his book Those Who Know Don't Say, which examines the anti-carceral, porto-abolitionist praxis (& repression) of the Nation of Islam in the middle of the 20th Century.

…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/episode-45-the…

Early in 2020, we had 2 talks with imprisoned organizers. Some of these convos have taken a backseat to the many battles against the carceral state amid covid, but they remain critically relevant

@JailLawSpeak: …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/episode-48-jai…

@FREEALAMOVEMENT: …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/special-episod…

Our conversation w/ Philly Black Radical Collective members @stillbrave29 & @saleemholbrook showed how Philly organizers have developed a local abolitionist vision in the wake of this summer's state violence & rebellions. One that remains as urgent as ever
…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/we-want-freedo…

Meaningful discussions of abolition deal with the reality of police repression that comes against marginalized populations trying to build a better world. We featured Selinda Guerrero of NM's Millions For Prisoners & IWOC chapters on an appalling instance:
…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/freethemall-fr…

A note on that specific struggle, Clifton White was released from prison later this year after a long fight from Selinda and Many many comrades across the state and beyond kunm.org/post/albuquerq…

On a similar note, Anthony Smith from Philly Black Radical Collective (above) has also been subjected to politically charged repression. He's still facing federal charges but has been released after a lot of outside pressure phillymag.com/news/2020/11/1…

.@CraigOGilmore also stopped by this year to offer analysis & insight from his history organizing to stop prison construction & working in the abolitionist movement for many years. In this he also deals with many of the recent critical discussions
…nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/abolition-is-i…

Abolition is about revolutionary organizing, struggle & imagination. Our thread on revolutionary organizing yesterday offers many critical insights into any discussion of abolition. This particular conversation with Jamal Joseph speaks to these connections …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/an-undying-lov…

this is the above mentioned through on revolutionary organizing. So many insights from those who have been in struggle their whole lives and from those who have studied past movements to distill important insights and analyses

https://twitter.com/MAKCapitalism/status/1340733690725449729?s=20

Our conversation with @notrivia on the Baltimore Police Dept is a grim reminder of why the abolition of police is a necessity based upon the realities of policing - both those realities that grab headlines and those that are seen as mundane and acceptable. …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-criminal-e…

While abolition was not the topic of the day when we sat down with Robin DG Kelley, there are tons of relevant insights from this wide-ranging discussion which centered around his previous interview with @RethinkMarxism: Solidarity Is Not A Market Exchange …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/midnight-on-th…

Many more episodes we could include under this theme, but they will show up in the next couple of days as we cover internationalism, theory & revolutionary cultural work.

As always, if our work is useful to you, & you can afford to contribute: patreon.com/millennialsare…

These are also just the conversations *WE* had on the show about abolition in 2020. Obviously there were many, many more amazing ones all over this year. Thanks to places like @Beyond_Prison @rustbeltradio @haymarketbooks @study__struggle and many, many others this year!

Almost forgot! It'll show up in our thread on internationalism, but our conversation with @Kayode__ani gave great insights into abolitionist conversations in Nigeria, dealing with relationships between police/state violence and neocolonialism/imperialism …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-movement-t…

A good reminder of how all of these "themes" overlap in multiple ways, but that is an amazing conversation if you haven't listened to it yet. Thank you @Kayode__ani again for coming on and sharing with us!