Practically speaking, abolition necessarily means that our social and economic relationships must be transformed. As abolitionist scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes, “Abolition is a movement to end systemic violence, including the interpersonal vulnerabilities and displacements that keep the system going. In other words, the goal is to change how we interact with each other and the planet by putting people before profits, welfare before warfare, and life over death.”80 She also reminds us “that abolition isn’t just absence; as W.E.B. Du Bois showed in Black Reconstruction in America,
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