From this morning after the Dobbs decision was handed down:
On way to the court pic.twitter.com/XrE9ExAzhm
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 24, 2022
Humanity faces numerous existential crises at the moment. Climate change is the overarching issue, but others like nuclear war, growing risk of pandemics, and general political instability all overlap with each other and threaten us all the same. The common link between all of these is that we absolutely can not come close to mitigating (let alone solving) any of these problems under capitalism. All these dilemmas require an international movement of solidarity to properly address them, which the political economy of capitalism is diametrically opposed to.
The Dobbs decision, along with all the other dogshit rulings this week, are all crises in and of themselves. The inability to obtain a legal abortion, or boycott an apartheid state, or rely on a public education will all cause direct, material harm to millions. Viewed through the existential scope of the previous paragraph these decisions serve a larger, even more nefarious purpose of making any sort of movement towards solidarity more and more impossible. A person jailed for an unjust law, a woman injured or dead from an unsafe abortion, a Palestinian driven off their land—the clear second-order effect of these rulings is that people victimized by the law will not have the liberty nor the means to help in the fight to build a new future.
If nothing else please let this be the moment that cements your commitment to prison abolition. They are going to incarcerate people for miscarriages. They are going to incarcerate mothers and aunts and big sisters for helping teenage relatives abort.
— Charlotte Shane (@CharoShane) June 24, 2022
The means with which capital will enforce these rulings is clear. They will use their soldiers (cops, ICE, border patrol) and their materiel (weapons, prisons, surveillance) to punish people to suit their ends. Which means the immediate goal of anyone looking for a livable future is clear: The marginalization, defeat, and dismantling of these systems of oppression once and for all. If you need a hit of optimism right now, I will add that I tend to think that if we can achieve this first step towards liberation, then the second step (abolition of capitalism) will be relatively easy.
Which makes the "how" part of this the million-dollar question. I don't know what the ultimate answer is but I know what it's not. This struggle requires a mass movement, which is anathema to both our bourgeois democratic institutions as well as our legacy institutions. The organization that will overcome this is either in its infancy or has yet to be started. Let's build it together.
"For many in the United States, it is easier to believe that Cuba is lying about their democratic achievements than to come to terms with the fact that our own government is choosing to deny us those same rights"https://t.co/mH8jhgozN0
— JR Giha (@jotaRgiha) June 20, 2022
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