A DSA candidate who recently won a primary in New York, Darializa Avila Chevalier believes that schools should be abolished. You know why? Because, as she correctly says, they are an inevitable foundation of the nation-state, and she hates the nation-state:
Avila Chevalier supports abolishing traditional schooling, describing schools as “parallel to prisons,” tied to “settler colonialism and white supremacy/racism,” and linked to “genocidal practices of the nation-state.”
Back in 2013, I explained on this blog that the nation state is being taken down, together with all the forms of welfare that it provides, including policing and public education. Of course, Avila Chevalier also supports police and prison abolition. She says directly that this is due to her hatred of the nation-state.
I knew that this was going to happen over a decade ago. This all sounded insane back when I first said it, but only 13 years later, New Yorkers go and vote for a politician who advances these ideas.
My new prediction is that soon enough, the Democrats will run candidates alongside whom Avila Chevalier will look downright moderate. They will offer a hodgepodge of seemingly unrelated and extremely bizarre measures that can only be understood if you realize that they have one common goal. That goal is the change of the form of statehood in which we live.

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