Blood in My Eye — Repression, Legitimacy, and Revolutionary Politics
When does a political system stop looking reformable to the people who most distrust it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson presents a revolutionary Marxist interpretation of prisons, racial hierarchy, class power, property relations, and the state. Jackson argues that reforms cannot produce liberation when the underlying structures of economic ownership and coercive power remain intact.
This episode investigates the system behind that argument. At its center is a reinforcing relationship between repression and…
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