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whats the prison abolitionist approach to mass killers? (lemmygrad.ml)
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im not subscribed to the prison abolition thing fully but i want to learn. what happens to mass killers? how would they be reformed in this ideology if they would be? how do u make sure they dont do it again? is the official stance that mass murder is not inherent to the human condition? thanks

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[–] starkillerfish@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago

the main argument behind prison abolition is that crime (including murder) comes from economic conditions. so, crime should be combatted by improving economic / social conditions of society. thus, a society that has fully embraced abolitionism is also a communist society

on a short-term scale, I personally like to think of as 'revolutionary' abolitionism, meanining substituting the police by revolutionary organisations. clearest example: red guards during 1917 revolution. capitalist policing is abolited in favour of worker organisations enforcing the dictatorship of the proletariat.