Targeting Revolutionaries

IF 0.7 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1215/01636545-10302807
Orisanmi Burton
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This essay traces the emergence of the carceral warfare project, a clandestine campaign to infuse US prisons with the logics and techniques of counterinsurgency. First exposed by Black Liberation Army member Dhoruba bin-Wahad, the project came into being between 1970 and 1978. The article begins by discussing the theory undergirding the carceral warfare project, a reactionary idea known as “the issue exploitation thesis.” Starting in 1970, seasoned cold warriors renovated their long-standing arguments against communism for application against imprisoned Black revolutionaries. Next, the FBI’s little-known Prison Activists Surveillance Program (PRISACTS) is discussed. Focusing on the words and deeds of George Jackson and Donald Bordenkircher—two central figures positioned on opposite sides of the struggle—the essay shows how the bureau used PRISACTS to treat carceral spaces as zones of counterrevolutionary warfare. Although the FBI officially discontinued PRISACTS in 1976, the final section argues that the FBI’s counterrevolutionary methodology had already been integrated into state prison systems by this date. Ultimately, this essay demonstrates that through prisons, internal security operatives engage in a plausibly deniable form of counterinsurgency warfare that seeks to isolate political prisoners from each other, from the general prison population, from their outside networks of support, and even alienates them from themselves.
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以革命者为目标
这篇文章追溯了尸体战项目的出现,这是一场为美国监狱注入反叛乱逻辑和技术的秘密运动。该项目最初由黑人解放军成员Dhoruba bin Wahad曝光,于1970年至1978年间成立。文章首先讨论了支持尸体战项目的理论,这是一种被称为“问题剥削论”的反动思想。从1970年开始,经验丰富的冷战战士们重新提出了他们长期以来反对共产主义的论点,以适用于被监禁的黑人革命者。接下来,将讨论联邦调查局鲜为人知的监狱活动人士监视计划(PRISACTS)。这篇文章聚焦于乔治·杰克逊和唐纳德·博登基彻这两位处于斗争对立双方的核心人物的言行,展示了该局如何利用PRISACTS将尸体空间视为反革命战争区。尽管联邦调查局在1976年正式停止了PRISACTS,但最后一节认为,到目前为止,联邦调查局的反革命方法已经融入了州监狱系统。最终,这篇文章表明,通过监狱,内部安全人员参与了一种看似可否认的反叛乱战争,试图将政治犯彼此隔离,与普通监狱人口隔离,与他们的外部支持网络隔离,甚至疏远他们自己。
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