"We write to say what few others have claimed: the panicking industrialists of the early twentieth century were correct in their hysterics. The severing of health from capital will mark the end of capitalism." #HealthCommunism
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/why-capitalism-needs-sick-people.html #Communism #Marx #HealthCare

What’s the aim of capitalism?

The language of the capitalism game is that of: profit, profit, profit, and that of growth, growth growth 📈 💸

The only thing that matters when playing the capitalism game, is capital accumulation

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #HealthCommunism

What is capitalism? in 56 seconds ⚡💰

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #HealthCommunism

Have you come across this curious game called ‘Capitalism’?

They say Capitalism is ‘very realistic’, and offers ‘hundreds of hours of gameplay for the corporate enthusiast’ :blobcatmoney:

Join the deep dive in your latest episode: https://vulnerablebydesign.net/disposable-bodies-reading-health-communism/

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCommunism #sickness #HealthCare

The official brief for this episode was to discuss the book #HealthCommunism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant (fyi: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism)

We only get to the book at around ~ 15 mins in, because we first had to cover this *tiny detail* of how capitalism works :blobcatbusiness:

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCare

Hey, how are you doing?

Feeling all right? Or are you maybe a bit depleted from a heavy week? :meowsleep:

No worries, mate. We’ve got a fresh episode to take your mind off of things for a couple of minutes: https://vulnerablebydesign.net/disposable-bodies-reading-health-communism/

#DisposableBodies #capitalism #health #HealthCommunism

Is privatization of healthcare a given, unavoidable? Not if you don't let it ✌️💊

Protests in Madrid against the privatization of the #HealthCare system:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/health-care-protest-madrid

Also: stay tuned for our upcoming #HealthCommunism episode :blobcatthinksmart:

Sneak peek ahead: Next episode will be about *Health Communism* by Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant 💉 💊 🛠️

Anything you'd like to see covered? Questions to address? Let us know soon!

#podcast #philosophy #health #capitalism #HealthCommunism

Also! We haven’t forgotten that you voted for an episode on Health Communism earlier:
https://nerdculture.de/@vulnerablebydesign/109416642494074417

As you may have guessed it’ll no longer be a December episode 😅 but it’ll be there after the ChatGPT one

#podcast #tech #society #philosophy #healthcommunism

#sickleave #healthcare #healthcommunism

“We contend that a socialized medicine that fully rejects the eugenic ideology of ‘deservingness’ for treatment and rejects the public debt ideology of care as economic burden must be understood as fundamentally threatening to the existence of capitalism. We write to say what few others have claimed: the panicking industrialists of the early twentieth century were correct in their hysterics. The severing of health from capital will mark the end of capitalism.” — #HealthCommunism

“Arguments that take as a prerequisite that capital and finance exist as they are, and must at most be rebalanced, ignore the revolutionary potential of recognizing the economic system as only a transitory social order for the allocation and distribution of resources and activities.” — #HealthCommunism

#Animism #AncestralHealing #GenerationalHealing #Liberation #DefundThePolice #AntiRacist #Revolution #Decolonization #ColonizerConsciousness #CulturalEcology #IllRelations #WellRelations
#LandBack #MutualAid
#Writing #Strikes #Communism #HealthSupremacy #HealthCommunism #GnosticSomatics

#animism #gnosticsomatics #ancestralhealing #generationalhealing #liberationarts
#LandBack #MutualAid
#Writing #strikes #communism #heathsupremacy #healthcommunism

I've been reporting on the book #HealthCommunism on my timeline the last week or so. But now I've finished reading the book, I've gathered my notes on my weblog:

https://indoxicate.me/health-communism/

I've been reporting on the book #HealthCommunism on my timeline the last week or so. But now I've finished reading the book, I've gathered my notes on my weblog:

https://indoxicate.me/health-communism/

(Sorry for any typo's, I'll proofread it some other time.)

I've been reporting on the book #HealthCommunism on my timeline the last week or so. But now I've finished reading the book, I've gathered my notes on my weblog:

https://indoxicate.me/health-communism/

(Sorry for any typo's, I'll proofread it some other time.)

But the bold claims don’t really matter. They sound good, sure. But the interesting take-home message of the book is that health is “imbricated” in capitalism (a word meaning ‘overlap’; the authors love to use it). I would say that health and capital are ‘entangled’. Hence, we can’t trust capitalism to take care of us, because the system of ‘taking care’ has already been made for extracting profit, and requires people to stay sick. We must free health care from this system. #HealthCommunism 5/5

In the end, the bold claim here is that capitalism needs health, and I think the authors mean by this that capitalism needs the construction of worker vs surplus (health vs illness). To argue for this claim, the authors have at best shown that capitalism always has made these distinctions in various ways. De facto. I think that’s not enough to convince me that removing the distinctions will kill off capitalism. Capitalism is a many-headed beast, as we know all too well. #HealthCommunism 4/5

We are all ill, then, means first and foremost that we’re all *surplus* to capital. All of our bodies are being used for profit-making, and they show the signs of it. The authors close the book by saying that “capital resides in health, as its host.” This is annoyingly ambiguous: is capital the host, or is it health? Later they clarify that health is the host body, and capital the parasite. Capital can’t kill its host, or it would have nowhere to reside, nothing to exploit. #HealthCommunism 3/5