Rüdiger’s Reviews > Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California > Status Update
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INFORMATION OVERLOAD! HELP! The gist so far is: California's economy evolved in this specific way, scraps of welfare were given out and huge spending in military interests allowed for economic prosperity. The situation changed (1970s, post-Fordism), the system couldn't reproduce itself, excess capital, land, labor CRISIS! And the crisis was not solved in interest of people rather in interest of capital, with prisons
— Aug 10, 2025 03:41AM
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Rüdiger
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done with chapter 3, that's something, although i am totally completely overwhelmed with information and data and historical facts and dates... phewww
— Oct 21, 2025 05:12AM
Rüdiger
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Through chapter one. It's interesting reading this and hearing Gilmore's voice in my head. It was a lot of theory and definitions just now, but I think I'll learn a lot. One detail that matches up with Gilmore's interviews is her definition of racism as the state-sanctioned production of vulnerability to premature death for specific groups (not easy to put succinctly).
— Jul 29, 2025 02:25PM
