Angela Davis returns: are prisons obsolete ?

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Jurriaan Bendien

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Great ! Hope she comes to Detroit soon. We have a new City Council Women's
Commission.

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Book Review - Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Yes, they are. In _Women, Race and Class_ , Angela discusses the coming
obsolescence of housework, too.

These are in the Marxist tradition of "endology": Engels the end of
philosophy, Marx the end of classes, private property, and the state.
Feuerbach, the end of God.

Davis, the end of housework and prisons, more doable, down to earth projects

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The final protest song on John Lennon's album "Some Time in New York City"

(1972) was devoted to Angela, but some rock critics thought it was facile.

Robert Christgau stated: "Agitprop that fails to reach its constituency,
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I couldn't quite understand Robert Christgau's "feminist" criticism of
Lennon writing a song to Angela Davis. Has the air of a bourgeois
smokescreen to keep something really radical away from as many people as
possible. John Lennon + Angela Davis is very radical- potent.

CB