“On Victimless Crime Laws”

This is an analysis of the structure and social effects of victimless crime laws. The fact is that 70% of all prisoners in the US are imprisoned for victimless crimes. Only 5% are im prison for violent crimes. The fact that those imprisoned for victimless crimes implies that those convicted are in fact the victims of these laws. It is the system of victimless crime laws that form the foundation for racial profiling, police impunity, and the growing police regimentation of civil society. (December 2015)
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“Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society”

This is a description and analysis, through examples, of the development of an attitude of total command by the police, as if they were commanding officers over all civilians in a military institution. This then forms the context for the use of instruments of torture, such as nightsticks and tasers, to enforce compliance and obedience. Against this regimentation of society, we must now find a way out of it into some new form of civilian social existence. (November 2015)
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“The politics of prisons and prisoners”

There are thousands of political prisoners in the US. Some were political before being arrested, and many others became poiticized in prison. Solitary confinement is essentially to separate political prisoners from the general population. But there are also the politics (and ethics) of those who end up in prison. Since 70% of all prisoners are there for victimless crimes, and only 5% for violent crimes, it becomes inportant to understand the spectrum of political attitudes that lead to one’s being imprisoned. This article gives an outline of that spectrum. (October 2015)
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“The Violence of Police Politics”

The violence of beating or executing a person who does not immediately demonstrate an obedience to a police command evinces a form of dementia on the part of the authorities. It demonstrates a level of cruelty that is evinced both on the street and in prison. We discern the politics of this in the behavior of the police, instigating violence so that they can respond with violence in their suppression of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in December 2014. Their tactics actually rendered them, the police, a counter-demonstration to the demonstrators. The police thus reveal themselves to be an agency for promulgating a politics of cruelty in this society. (July 2015)
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“Toward the Abolition of the Prison System”

This article is a beginning outline of ethical and political arguments for theabolition of the prison system – in light of the fact that sociological arguments, namely that prisons fail in the purpose, are inadequate and wrong in assuming the value and propriety of imprisonment. Instead, it is necessary to understand that imprisonment is just another form of crime, that it serves as a role model for violence throughout the society, and that it provides the foundation for police impunity and police brutality. Today, the police-prison nexus forms the central structure of the processes of racialization that have been accelerating since the civil rights movements in order to roll back what the civil rights movements gained. Thus, the police-prison nexus sits at the core of the reconstruction of whiteness and white racialized identity. (March 2015)
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“Police Impunity, Human Autonomy, and Jim Crow”

This is an analysis of the structure of police violence, its relation to police demands for absolute obedience, and the structure of police impunity that has grown through the continual police and media valorization of these acts of brutality. What characterizes them is the fact that they have a common style, which is described and analyzed, and appear with a certain uniformity throughout the US. Not only do they reflect the regimentation being imposed on society, but in the context of racial profiling, which is a central element in the vast majority of these incidents, they constitute a dimension of the reconstruction of Jim Crow throughout the US. Ultimately, this uniformity renders all police, through the country, an agency for a form of colonialism imposed on US society. (July 2014)
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“A Critique of the Berkeley Police Report on the events of Dec. 6, 2014”

In June of 2015, the BPD issued a report on their actions against demonstrations the previous December, calling for justice for the victims of police shootings and the failure of cities to indict the killers. The report clearly shows that the police acted as a political party with interests of its own in suppressing those demonstrations, and that fact is clearly in evidence in their report. This critique shows how it expresses itself in four stages, moving deeper and deeper into the police valorization of their own violence and propensity to torture, as routine procedure. (June 2014)
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“Colonialism of the Third Kind: Corporate Impunity vs. Human Sovereignty”

This article begins with an description and analysis of the corporate structure as an artificial entity. It then describes how that alien, non-human entity has gained control over human society in a manner similar to that of classical colonialism – the rule over one society by another that comes from elsewhere and is alien to the indigenous society. Then, some of the ramifications of this for US society – short-term thinking, power over legislatures, and the cooptation of the labor unions – are analyzed, as arising from the culture imposed on society by the colonizing corporate structure. (April 2014)
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“Probing the epidemic of Police Murders”

As the number of outright murders committed by the police grows, one discovers that there are general forms that are discernible in these crimes, owing to the fact that so many of them are now being video-ed, and broadcast across the country. The terms of this structure are a racial profiling, a demand for obedience, the creation of a situation prioritizing disobedience, and the use of lethal force in response to that disobedience. One can see this structure in cases as disparate as the murders of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and Troy Davis. It is the uniformity of this structure of murder that reveals its meaning. (March 2013)
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“White supremacy, the commodification of land, and the corporate structure”

The original iniquity that colonialism brought upon this continent was the commodification of land. The colonists didn’t steal the land from the indigenous; they first took over the land then made it stealable. If the economic form that required this was the corporation, the cultural result was the development of a social process of racialization based upon the commodification of human beings. The on-going operation of structures of racialization, as the manifestation of white supremacy, has dominated the US socio-political arena up to the present. The present form of those structures is the police-prison nexus domestically, and the assumption of a militarism and impunity internationally. (April 2011)
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“The Question of Fascism in the US”

The question of fascism in the US is unanswerable if one investigates using European experience as a precedent or template. US history is not based on nation formation or the rise of a bourgeoisie out of feudalism. It is based on coloniality, racialization, and the corporate structure. These three structures form the basis of a fascism that emerges during the first years of the Jamestown colony, and persist in forms that still need to be fully examined all the way through US history to the present. (July 2008)
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"The dual-state character of US coloniality”

One reason why racism has had such tenacity, withstanding wave after wave ot resistance and opposition, beginning way back in the 17th century, is that white supremacy constitutes itself as a form of state. The constitutional state and the white para-political state not only co-exist, but use each other for their own purposes as unquestionable instrumentalities, and then rely on each other when they get in trouble and face political upheaval or political scandal. This article is an attempt to articulate the nature of the white parapolitical state, and the relation between the two states. (Fall 2007)
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