Slavery in the American Prison-Industrial-Complex in the 21st Century

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

 

Note by Fazal Rahman

This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC) in the US, which, as stated by many of its victims, is continuation of slavery in the 21^st Century.  As is the common and routine practice in all politico-economic matters here, law enforcement, government, and corporate officials – the beneficiaries of exploitation of such slave labor – not only try to cover it up, but justify, rationalize, and moralize it.  This is one of innumerable manifestations of the sinister reality of American capitalist-imperialist “democracy”, which has created hundreds of millions of clones thumping their chests about being free, democratic, advanced, and exceptional.  They are exceptional indeed, but not in the way they imagine.

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A brief note on the appearances and essences of capitalist morality, justice, and humanity

By Fazal Rahman                                 August 20, 2023

Capitalist morality is founded upon built-in structural immoralities of the capitalist system.  Capitalist justice is founded upon built-in structural injustices of the capitalist system.  Justice in the judicial system of capitalism reflects these contradictions and judges are trained to ignore the foundations and issue decisions based upon mechanistic applications of laws hiding the classist and racist injustices. In fact, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based robots can issue more efficient and competent decisions, based on such laws, than most of the “human” judges. Capitalist humanity is founded upon built-in structural inhumanities of the capitalist system.  The essences remain hidden behind the deceptive appearances for overwhelming majorities. At the imperialist stage, these are extended to rest of the world in greatly enhanced types and forms, which frequently fail to cover up the essences of immoralities, injustices, and inhumanities.

The above observations need to be expanded and elaborated further.