The Magical Thinking of Reformism

ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE

Reformism Isn’t Liberation, It’s Counterinsurgency

You can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself

Dylan Rodriguez
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9 min readOct 20, 2020

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This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium

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Dylan Rodriguez
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Dylan Rodríguez is a 2020 Freedom Scholar, President of the American Studies Association (2020–2021), and Professor at the University of CA, Riverside.