Sunday, 23 October 2011

Health is a bourgeois concept.

"To be healthy thus means to be expropriated and exploitable."

#2. Illness being the totality of conditions of capitalist relations of production is the productive power par excellence for capitalism.

#7. Illness is the veiled unemployment and in the form of social security contributions being imposed illness is crisis-buffer par excellence in neo-capitalism.

#11. Health is nothing but an ideologistic-fascist figment of the mind.

(SPK: Turn Illness into a Weapon)

The system and the capitalists physically weaken you and psychologically damage you through belittlement and criticism, and money is no fair compensation to this treatment.
SPK state that illness is the currency of capitalism and its method by which it can sustain its dominance. It sickens you into compliance, until you are made to be grateful for its assistance in numbing your pain.

"A new economic space has been delineated - the bioeconomy - and a new form of capital - biocapital."
"...our somatic, coporeal, neurochemical individuality has become opened up to choice, prudence, and responsibility, to experimentation, to contestation, and so to a politics of life itself."
(Nikolas Rose 'The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century')

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Letters on Historical Materialism

“nothing is absolute and everything relative”

Monday, 17 October 2011

FREEDOM ONLY COMES IF YOU TAKE IT!

All historical experience confirms that men might not achieve the possible, if in this world they had not, time and again, reached out for the impossible. - Max Weber

Freedom only comes if you take it! - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey




Thursday, 13 October 2011

The Grapes of Wrath.

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.