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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,283 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,874 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,150 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,198 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,323 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,213 ratings — published 2007
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,617 ratings — published 2015
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,126 ratings — published 2011
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,132 ratings — published 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,881 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,645 ratings — published 2020
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,670 ratings — published 2005
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.59 — 465 ratings — published
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.49 — 276 ratings — published
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 329,737 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,389 ratings — published 2018
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 2024
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 214 ratings — published 2020
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.59 — 30,099 ratings — published 1987
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,638 ratings — published 2023
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,532 ratings — published 1972
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,276 ratings — published 2016
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,112 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,192 ratings — published 1975
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,386 ratings — published 2020
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.54 — 641 ratings — published
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 309 ratings — published 2012
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 620 ratings — published 2017
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 896 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027 ratings — published 2019
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,868 ratings — published 1970
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,358 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,237 ratings — published 2014
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 888 ratings — published 2022
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.78 — 157 ratings — published
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,646 ratings — published 2017
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 605 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.15 — 275 ratings — published 2016
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 824 ratings — published 2011
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,312 ratings — published 1971
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.29 — 160 ratings — published 2014
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,390 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,393 ratings — published 2006
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,739 ratings — published 1852
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 154 ratings — published 2023
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 360 ratings — published 2021
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,817 ratings — published 2017
Abolishing Carceral Society (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.30 — 40 ratings — published
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,975 ratings — published 1845
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a democracy. But this was precisely for democracy that the both parts had always fought. The great French Revolution proclaimed the great appeal "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". The history showed that from the class viewpoint, they could indicate different things, distinct contents; these concepts must be filled with different sense. In the class society, in the society locked in a state, Liberty is always at the top of somebody’s spear! Equality is the Achilles’ heel, into which this spear is plunged. Humanity is the pledge for plunging it by all force. ”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
