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SUMMARY:7/13 | BEYOND THE PUNITIVE SOCIETY
DESCRIPTION:In 1973\, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at t
 he Collège de France on The Punitive Society that tied to
 gether the exploitation of the working class to the inventio
 n of the prison. Foucault brought together the different str
 ands of oppression—economic\, social\, carceral—under the 
 larger rubric of a “punitive society.”\n\n“The punitive 
 society”: the central idea at the core of the critique of 
 our contemporary society as being a “punitive society” i
 s perhaps the thread that unites all of the sessions this ye
 ar in Abolition Democracy 13/13. Not surprisingly\, it is wov
 en into the fabric of W.E.B. Du Bois’s magisterial book\, 
 Black Reconstruction in America: the central problem of raci
 al injustice\, for Du Bois\, is not limited to any one particu
 lar institution—whether it is slavery\, convict leasing\, pl
 antation prisons\, or Jim Crow—but attaches more broadly to
  the society that makes possible those specific institutions
  of injustice. It is precisely for this reason that Du Bois 
 militated not just for the negative abolition of unjust prac
 tices and institutions\, but for the radical transformation o
 f society and political economy.
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