Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto

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i will say i think the analyses lacked some nuance at times even if broadly-speaking the book is correct about the systems’ functioning. My optimism was confirmed and then some, and rarely do I come across a book that has something new to teach every single person who picks it up, regardless of academic level or familiarity with the content. Death Panel has a listener-initiated reading group on disability justice and has become a “cult hit” in the art world. Com que escriuré una ressenya llarga més endavant de moment només dir que us el recomano molt i un petonet.

Overall, Health Communism is an interesting if at times flawed read that presents some fascinating insights into the links between capitalism, health and control.

Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. These barriers can hinder care if they cause doctors to ignore patient concerns due to what the authors feel is classism. The surplus is then turned into raw fuel to extract profits, through rehabilitation, medicalization, and the financialization of health. If you have ever gone to work sick because you need the job to treat the sickness, you know the basic argument of Health Communism to be true: health under capitalism is an impossibility.

They stake out the far edge of what is possible and remind us that only the journey towards that horizon will make us free. People must embrace revolution - what else do most people have besides a hopelessly precarious life anyway?The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The language can obscure the argument at times, making it difficult to concentrate on the links between capital and illness, and the need to create a revolution in society that would also make for a revolutionary change in how illness is identified and treated.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. It is succinct and to the point--making it an excellent resource for activists, theorists, and academics--but its threshold of foreknowledge keep it from being what I would classify as "pop politics" and widely accessible to the general public. This book changed the way I think about health, power, state capacity, extraction, social welfare, and resistance. I'm def not done with it and will probably go back and try to dive deeper into what resonated with me, so glad to have the resource.The authors are deliberately and against their better judgement constructing an SPK that suits their ideological purposes, distorting and twisting it until they can force it into their false framework of ideas.