BONUS: Teach-In on George Jackson’s ”Blood In My Eye”

In this bonus podcast we feature a recording of a teach-in from Media Cyphers host Andy Argo for the Socialist Party of Michigan.

 

We look at George Jackson's classic and extremely relevant revolutionary text and talk about the modern parallels and still existing social issues Jackson critiqued in his book published some 50 years ago. We deep dive into Jackson's analysis of the prison-industrial complex, Socialist organizing, and the process of fascism.

 

"George Jackson’s ‘Blood in My Eye’ is a collection of writings on prison life, racism, and revolutionary politics from a Marxist point of view, completed only days before the author was killed at the hands of San Quentin prison guards.

At eighteen, Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He spent the rest of his life — eleven years– in the California prison system, seven in solitary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and revolutionary political theoretician."

 

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https://archive.org/details/GeorgeJacksonBloodInMyEye_201512