Abolition and Reconstruction: An Emergent Guide for Collective Study - Paperback

$18.00

Abolition and Reconstruction: An Emergent Guide for Collective Study - Paperback

Name: Abolition and Reconstruction: An Emergent Guide for Collective Study - Paperback
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SKU: 9781945335365
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by Du Bois Movement School for Abolition an (Compiled by)

We study the world in order to change it.

What you are holding in your hands is not a finished product. But it is the product of the first year of our work at the Du Bois Movement School. And what a year it has been. The Du Bois Movement School was the product of a particular time and place. We came together amid the long wake of the 2020 rebellions, which mobilized hundreds of thousands nationwide and pushed abolitionist narratives into the mainstream. This raised pressing questions for abolitionists across the country and the world, and more than any other, the question was this: what do we mean when we say abolition?The system had two responses to this question: co-optation and counterinsurgency. While sectors of the political and media apparatus have embraced the language of abolition (and decolonization) to water down and co-opt them, the state has also subjected revolutionary abolitionists to severe repression-we experienced both in Philly. In this context, we engaged in conversations among movement educators and radical organizers across the city to ask what kind of political education would help to take abolitionist struggles to the next level. We realized that this required not only training in concrete organizing skills but real understanding of the world, history, economics, and power. We realized that we need to study our world if we want to change it.

ISBN	9781945335365
Publisher	Common Notions
Genre	History and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	September 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	224
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print