Thousands of people gathered in cities such as Boston; in boulder,
Colorado; in Portland, Oregon; in Austin, Tex; in Bay Area, California; and in
New York City to protest against the lack of accountability for the lethal
police violence against unarmed Black people.
The names of two recent police brutality victims continue to
be echoed in the protests: Mike Brown of Ferguson and Eric Garner, who was
strangled to death in Staten Island in July. After being taken to court, the
police was found innocent in relation to the death of both these men.
The state, via the police, protects and defends the laws
that are written in defense of private property and corporate profits, such as
breaking strikes and breaking up protests that get in the way of stores selling
their goods, such as we saw in the Mall of America.
Corporations accumulate their profits by dispossessing the
workers from the value s/he produces in the workplace and outside of the
workplace with the exchange-value system (increasing the cost of living such as
rent and food). Today there is a colossal difference in the amount of wealth controlled
by the top 1% and the bottom 99%. The role of the state, especially the police,
who are in the front line of the clash between these two classes, is to mediate
it, using its monopoly on violence if necessary. In this way, since the police force, as part
of the state, is itself the coercive force to protect property and encapsulate the
legal dispossession of the working class, capitalism will never allow it to be
made frail or fragile in anyway. History
has made this fact clear that as the working class exploitation increases,
through higher prices and lower wages and loss of benefits, it correlates positively
with higher cases of police ruthless brutality.
Creating and or maintaining divisions within the working
class such as by gender, ethnicity or race benefits capital accumulation. It is to the benefit of capitalism to keep
wages as low as possible, and by breaking worker’s solidarity through divisions
such as race, the system as a whole benefits.
Today the working people in the US are fighting against the
state, its laws and the police, and are taking this fight where it really
matters: disrupting the profits of corporate America. By holding their protest
in the Mall of America, the Black Lives
Matter movement essential clogge
d one of many of United States’ corporate arteries
for a day. This method of protest is
also an economic attack on the faceless capital accumulation which is the foundations
of misery of this class struggle. 
Chia Barsen
www.chiabarsen.com
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