A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
By: Geo Maher
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a who…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enemies of workers and people of color, but from their very origin they have been synonymous with a racialized division of the working class that has always forestalled progress, much less revolution. Police unions today remain faithful to those origins into that history of betrayal."-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"The police cannot be reformed—more than a century of experience proves this beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if we tried, and we do continue to try, police resist tooth and nail even the smallest reforms and the most minimal accountability. They do so, in part, because ultimately they want zero accountability. They also do so simply because they can. As we have seen, the history of American police is the history of their expanding power, and it is a voracious power that accepts no limits: a fascist power."-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"A world without police is therefor a world in which the police are obsolete, useless—a world where they serve literally no purpose. Seen from this angle, we're already halfway there: the police are useless. They don't do what they claim, they don't protect and serve, much less prevent, care, or support. At the same time, the police do play an essential, indeed indispensable role in fabricating and upholding the world we inhabit today, premised as it is on the domination and exploitation of the vast majority."-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"A world without police would be a world without poverty and hunger, in which everyone would have enough, and no one would need to look over their shoulder. It would be a world without white supremacy, in which no one is viewed as dispensable or as deserving anything last enough fully human life. It would be a world without the violence of patriarchy, in which women, children, and those gendered otherwise are not seen as objects for possession—economic or sexual. Without capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy, why on earth would we need the police? And since the police exist to govern and reinforce barriers, boundaries, and borders, to fight the police is to fight those divisions racking our world as well."-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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Format: 25 pages, ebook
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2. Women, Race & Class
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4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
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3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
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"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
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"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
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24. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
By: Geo Maher
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enem…"-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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4.44
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