After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed

Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands? After Black Lives Matter argues that the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socioeconomic inequality.