RE-EDUCATION #13: What Do the Police Have to Do With Capitalism?
RE-EDUCATION #13: What Do the Police Have to Do With Capitalism?
Why All Cops Are Bastards (to the left)
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What do the police have to do with capitalism?
Let me break it down like I would to a 5-year-old:
Imagine a big cookie jar with rules about who gets cookies. Some people have more cookies, and they want to keep them. The police are like guards, making sure the rules of the jar are followed, protecting the cookie stash of the rich and leaving many people with fewer cookies.
Some folks think the rules of the jar are unfair, and the police are just there to keep the wealthy stocked with cookies. So, when they say "defund the police," they mean getting rid of the guards, taking the cookies from the rich, and redistributing them so that everyone has an equal amount of cookies.
In this metaphor, the cookie jar is capitalism, the cookies are private property, and the police are the protectors of the cookie wealthy elite—the bourgeoisie—and the ones keeping everyone with fewer cookies, the proletariat, in check.
The far left wants to abolish or defund the police because they see them as the muscle behind private property and the capitalist system. They say the police are basically descendants of slave catchers. In their worldview, capitalism—i.e., private property—gave birth to slavery (the ownership of people as private property), so the police are not just enforcing capitalism but also perpetuating systemic racism (the system that upholds racism, capitalism).
Take, for example, this gem of a sign from the Denver Communists:
That’s why "defund the police" is a cornerstone of the Black Lives Matter movement. It's not just about race—it’s about tearing down capitalism.
In the Marxist utopia, the left believes the police would not exist. They believe abolishing capitalism would eliminate all crime because everyone would have access to all of the resources they need under equity.
So, next time you hear calls to defund the police, just remember: it’s not really about race—it’s about dismantling capitalism.
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That's an interesting analogy with the cookies.
Great information