". . . state counterinsurgency against Black freedom movements, and the rise of law-and-order proceduralism among white political moderates." A preview of Taylor's recent @uchicagopress.bsky.social book 'Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State.' [3/3]

The transformation of Jim Crow criminal punishment into the modern carceral state [can be found] in the changing structure of racial capitalism in the South. . ." [2/3]

"Perhaps even more damning is the absence of emergency about the vast number of excess deaths caused by the private, for-profit health-care system and insurance companies—deaths that bring the system increased profits." [4/4]

"It would be overly simplistic to say that the cases discussed above demonstrate that murder is legal. Yet the ambivalence with which the criminal legal system treats the killings of those deemed inconsequential to people in power has long been documented." [3/4]

"In allegedly killing one of the primary orchestrators and beneficiaries of white capital, Mangione’s did. These are not inconsistencies or loopholes in the legal system—this is exactly how it is supposed to work." [2/4]