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The Prison-Industrial complex is pumping out criminalization literature. Here’s an older article that talks about how it works regarding homelessness, but you can see how it works with drugs as well.
Good link. Having funding from reactionary billionaires who fund private for profit prisons is quite an incentive to spread propaganda.
I noticed that when more sources do report about something (even though they got money for it), my family does take it more as “true” or “known” than if it is one really well researched media/academic outlet that reports on it (or in this case the inverse).
Even some socialists I know are weirdly pro-drug enforcement now.
That’s what 0 material analysis does to a mf. Yes, you can say hard drugs do hurt the most vulnerable in our society. But so is enforcing the ban. Damn, we live in capitalist society, bourgeoisie is the ruling class. Hostile ruling class. If something is implemented it will be implemented exactly in a way that will benefit them. We don’t have control over it.
I’m not saying there is nothing we can do, or shouldn’t discuss it. What i’m saying is that hard drug use is a huge systemic issue you can’t solve by being vaguely pro/anti. Having a comprehensive plan is actually a good thing, at very least for propaganda purposes. It might even help with socialist construction after the revolution. But don’t assume you can just pull a policy from your ideal dream communist society inside your head into the real world for bourgeois government to implement and expect a good result.
There is definitely no material conditions of a century of humiliation that wouldnt affect a country like that now would it?
What if I told you that the Americans created the cartels like the British propped up the opium trade? I am team legalized coca sure, but at the end of the day there is a reason why the hard stuff and real drug pushers aren’t welcome in Cuba.
Mao handled the issue with a combination of supported rehab for addicts and execution of drug dealers (although if I remember correctly this was only the dealers who refused to turn on their organisation). Although it is also worth pointing out that the drug triads of 1940’s China were essentially warlords and aren’t very comparable to US drug dealers and the production of opium in China was undermining food growth
It is also the case that Chinese drug laws are not very different to Singapore’s drug laws
It is 100% like that with drugs dealers in Mexico
Mexico doesn’t have a death penalty and it’s kind of stopped a lot of justice
I think Maos guys did the right thing
It’s a complex issue but killing Bougie Chapos … God why did they name is chapotraphouse …plus on drugs too 🤌
Not sure what you mean by that. I’m saying you shouldn’t trust govs to handle social issues in favor of proletariat. Not that you shouldn’t shoot drug lords under any circumstances.
In order to shoot drug lords, you have to be willing to kill their hired guns. Let’s not be naive. You have to treat them all like fascists if they don’t submit.
I feel like this goes hand in hand with the anti-psychedelic energy that’s been getting into left wing spaces too. Seems so regressive in a lot of ways.
I feel like part of is was just because a lot of the anti war on drugs sentiment was driven by cannabis being illegal, but now that it’s starting to get legalized in more and more states, that’s going away
From what I’ve noticed, even discussion of safe consumption spaces (which would reduce public drug use) brings out the libs’ inner Officer MacGruff. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is also related to the fentanyl scare.
Ok and? Safe injection sites still drastically reduce overdose deaths, HIV infections and are a critical waypoint to drug rehabilitation
Ok and?
The guy I’m responding to is bringing up negative reaction to safe injection sites. I am pointing out a material reason for why this might be. Most people are opposed to being randomly shot.
