Their End Is Our Beginning : Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bean, Brian.

Contributor:

Aleck, Charlie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police abolition movement.

Law enforcement.

Anti-globalization movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2025.

Summary:

"Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing" as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates policing? In this clear and comprehensive account of why and how the police-the linchpin of capitalism-function and exist, organizer and author brian bean presents a clear case for the abolition of policing and capitalism." -- Publisher

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

introduction “A Single Picture of Police Violence and Capitalist Exploitation”

chapter 1 Origins of a Violent Order: Where Cops Come From

chapter 2 “Bullies in Blue Suits”: What Cops Do

chapter 3 The Police State and Its Functionaries

chapter 4 An Ever-Raging Fire: International Revolt and Resistance

chapter 5 Revolutionary Abolitionism

acknowledgments

notes

index

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ISBN:

979-88-88904-17-6

OCLC:

1523194949