The danger of only looking at revolution through the lense of revolting against a particular state, rather than the destruction of the State overall means we are only challenging a certain rulership instead of the idea of being ruled.
The fight is against the state and all those who are in place to protect it
So while many may celebrate Bratton’s resignation understand that William Bratton™ will continue to be the top cop-for-hire, even after he resigns.
It is not enough to just say we need to abolish the police, we must abolish the state as well.
As the political landscape for the 2016 Presidential race begins to reveal itself, we are reminded again that democracy exists only in theory in this country. With a long list of American plutocrats, the presidential nominee list reads like an unredacted CIA torture report. Yes, American citizens will have a chance in November to vote for either new money or old money but either way money always wins. Let’s not kid ourselves, America has always been run by the oligarchs. Although the fact that we may yet again have another Bush or Clinton in the Whitehouse, the idea of only a few families running the country is as American as the Rockefellers and the Roosevelts. Don’t let the headlines and the righteous indignation from the left fool you – we are not in jeopardy of losing our democracy, we never had it.
There are so many articles that have come out in the past few years that are directed at bashing millennials. These similar pieces tend to have the same distant analysis about how my generation is just a bunch of internet-selfie doobie-smokers who cant get their act together. These authors sound less like they are giving an actual critique on the millennial generation and more as if they were posting a passive aggressive Facebook status as a disappointed parent. This is the same parent that doesn’t understand why hitting the pavement to get a job now means sitting on your computer for hours, scrolling through Craigslist ads, only to finally get a reply back from one of them and have it be someone trying to scam you for your credit.
