Here’s my simple, although potentially uncharitable, hunch about why people on the far left use radical terminology like “prison abolition” and “family abolition,” only to—in some cases, at least—clarify that they don’t actually seek to abolish prison or the family: they just care more about expressing and affirming their conception of themselves as radicals than accurately labeling their views
Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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Family abolition continues that fight, not by destroying families, but by refusing to let the capitalist family be the only place care and futurity can happen. It’s not a rejection of kids. It’s a rejection of a world that treats kids like private property or burdens to bear.
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