RT Article
T1 Histories of Abolition, Critiques of Security
JF Social justice
VO 45
IS 2/3
SP 1
OP 23
A1 McQuade, Brendan
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747154210
AB The contemporary debate about abolition and its relation to wider anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles can be read as reproducing the tired opposition between reform and revolution, between gradual incrementalism and immediate disruptive action. This false dichotomy can be resolved by returning the holistic and historical analysis of abolition democracy offered by W.E.B. Du Bois’ in his classic work Black Reconstruction. Du Bois offers an alternative mandate for abolitionist praxis: one which highlights the interplay of disruptive direct action and incremental change within a historically informed understanding of a particular social struggle. Understood in these terms, abolition becomes a critically important and neglected component of the revolutionary tradition: Abolition is the foil of bourgeoisie security.
K1 Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Book : Du Bois)
K1 Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
K1 Revolutions
K1 Reforms
K1 Abolitionists
K1 Antislavery movements