Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
Jacobin Radio
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Is There a Conscious Effort to Fix the Carceral State?
White flight from the american cities basically collapsed the tax base for local politicians, starting in the 19 fifties ad into the 19 sixties. Solik: What do they do if they can't tax because all the rich people have gone out to the suburbs? Solik: Well, dissolution seems obvious. It's like, you just ramp up the carceral state because it's so cheap, right?Solik: The explanation is, oh, it's because of raceism, that it's because a, white people in America want to punish black people across the board.
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