By Kaagni Harekal Abolition 5/13: “Property is Theft!” was a lightning rod. It attracted towards itself conversations on insurrection, war, chattel slavery, settler-colonialism, anarchism, and even Spotify, all the while routing them through the questions Prof. Harcourt’s introductory remarks so… Continue Reading
By Christine Prevas Abolition 5/13, “Property is Theft!”, co-hosted by Professors Bernard Harcourt and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, approached the topic of the abolition of property through texts by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, placing these texts in… Continue Reading
By Rebecca Stout The panel of Abolition Democracy 5/13 was composed of singer and musician Theo Bleckmann and scholars and activists Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Amy Allen, Étienne Balibar, and Karuna Mantena. Unlike prior Abolition Democracy 13/13 seminars, Abolition Democracy 5/13… Continue Reading
By S. Shabzadeh Introduction Capitalist conceptions of property and labor were born in the factories and looms of industrial revolution England in the latter half of the 18th century. The rapid accumulation of wealth by England’s industrialists through the mechanization… Continue Reading
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, which serves as a guiding post of our seminar, attacks revisionist history, racism, structural economic inequality, the fiction of social rise solely through individual effort and the preeminence of capitalist greed over democratic… Continue Reading
English We will not keep the people waiting. Ladies and gentlemen, you see here the vanishing representative of a vanishing class. What is a picklock to a bank share? What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. Ed. Frederick Engels. New York: International Publishers, 1948. Marx, Karl. “Critique of the Gotha Programme.” In Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three, 13-30. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. Proudhon, Pierre Joseph.… Continue Reading
Abolition Collective. “Our Evolving Mission and Goals.” Abolition Collective, https://www.collectiveforaboliton.org/our-mission. Achiume, E. Tendayi. “Migration as Decolonization.” 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019). Adorno, Theodor W. “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” In V. Meja, D. Misgeld and N. Stehr, eds, Modern… Continue Reading