• D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    The state needed a place to put the people who wouldn’t go along with the system, a way of punishing dissidents and enforcing capitalist values via physical force.

    Me vaguely remembering all the history podcasts talking about the "vagrancy" laws in the USA. "Not at work during the day? Well then, off to jail to work in a chain gang."