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...Amna A. Akbar Today’s left movements are rejecting neoliberalism and pivoting toward mass politics through an array of strategies and tactics. Struggles for reforms—or nonreformist reforms—loom large. This essay examines Occupy Wall Street, defund the police, and relations between the Green New...

... are central to any such transformation. More recently in LPE, concepts of the demand and nonreformist reform are being used to think through the fraught relationship between reform and transformation. In particular, Amna Akbar s contribution to this issue both builds on and troubles these concepts...

... of state and capital but pre- venting their resuscitation after their collapse or “evaporation” (e.g., by refusing the emergence of any kind of constituent assembly). Shifting to the reform and revolution axis, we can discern a tendency for partisans of transition to consider nonreformist reforms...

... on which it draws is a commitment to thinking institutionally and structurally, and also to generating projects of reform (and, ideally, nonreformist reforms another concept about which there is an important debate today). This may create complexities for the scholarly project, and I ll come back to ask...

... themselves even when the state’s rationale for imprisonment shifts beyond original recognition. Also, with the prison threshold, the critic who advocates for “nonreformist reform” may retheorize the history of the penal state itself. So far I have merely drawn attention to breakdowns within...