ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the need to combat capitalism and its repressive criminal justice industrial complex in order to successfully work towards abolition. It provides theoretical foundations, rationales, and action guidelines for the manifestation of the revolutionary consciousness of abolition into real-world work. The chapter explores the dynamic nature of human beings and offers radical critiques of existing capitalist relationships. It suggests resistance approaches to artificial social and political constructs that underlie the carceral state of racial capitalism and offers solutions. Praxis requires a devotion of energies into cycles of reflection, research, and social action, the latter of which may require a revolutionary pushback of disorder and insurrection. Actions opposing hegemony are routinely condemned by the ruling order as undemocratic, and the state fears any fundamental challenge to its power. The criminal justice industrial complex is the supreme concept of bourgeois society that undertakes to keep social peace and public order. This chapter, therefore, offers a framework for deciding what values and what praxis considerations we should attend to and how we may advance abolition work by replacing a bourgeois society with one based on social morality and value-based praxis.
