“In short, for supplying and controlling both natural resources (oil) essential for U.S. economic life, and also for nurturing U.S. group identity, the deaths of the poor are necessary. They are sacrifices that power the U.S.-led imperium.” — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression,… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the holiness of… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Daily living is replete with ideologies rationalizing the sacrifice of racially stigmatized, surplus populations.” — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses “should be… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, God, faces and suffers some of the worst that… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Critique of the 1 percent’s domination predates, it should be recalled, the “Occupy” movement’s popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr.… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“In short, for supplying and controlling both natural resources (oil) essential for U.S. economic life, and also for nurturing U.S. group identity, the deaths… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
