Abolitionist Theory and Political Praxis

Please be gay, do crimes with me. Um

and it's also really fucking weird just on the laws not real thing

as an abolitionist

The ethos of abolition

an abolitionist positionality of

an abolitionist liberatory ecosystem

debates in abolition.

In abolition, especially as you, if you think of it as both methodology

and ideology,

When you abolish the police, you do burn down police stations,

I imagine.

Indeed, we have.

But, um... or some people have allegedly.

to the abolition of rent, nuclear weapons, prison, debt, even

monopoly power, imperialism, you name it.

And abolition isn't, is

what we are making rather than the erasure

of what is.

So when I say, as I've said many times, I know it's a meme,

abolition is a presence, I mean it.

And by feminism, I mean

anti-racist feminism, anti-capitalist feminism, abolition

feminism

as abolitionist praxis.

It has been consistent with a Black feminist, Black left feminist

praxis to be in solidarity with Palestine.

prefigurative political praxis.

There's a difference between, um, solidarity as political value

and solidarity as organizing practice.

long march towards dialectical materialism

to deepen the struggle, to broaden the struggle.

You know, love, study, and struggle is a framework for

action

struggles across our history.

Some of us are card-carrying communists, some of us democratic

socialists, some of us Pan-Africanists, radical

feminists, anti-imperialists, police abolitionists.

We need a junkie communism.

You know, Marx and Engels were actually really influenced by us,

by the

Haudenosaunee, and they saw us as like this,

they called us

primitive communists.

So maybe you should never take your commie hat off.

Dashaun is a queer and trans theorist, anarcho-communist,

Afro-pessimist, and Southern born and bred abolitionist.

I am not okay, comrades.

For over a decade, I've been part of a sort of

transgender materialist and anti-work trans

Marxist effort in revolutionary feminism in the West that

theorizes, um, social reproduction and trans

social reproduction and the positive supersession of

capitalist care.

Imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism are deeply

intertwined.

To learn them is to decolonize our minds, right?

As, as long as we haven't figured out how to

get rid of

capitalism, Marx is relevant.

to Black liberation, to disabled and sick liberation, to

indigenous liberation, to tw- trans and queer liberation, to the

liberation of Palestine.

Our way of getting out of this requires us to bring these

systems down. It's absolutely essential.

Now, whether or not we call it a, a general strike or whether

or not we call it

a national economic blackout

really doesn't matter.

Um, one of the, uh, best things that got organized during this

was, um, what we can't call a general strike

because then that would acknowledge illegal strikes.

Uh, but we can call an economic blackout

Organizing, uh, organizing in general and

political organizing in particular