Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto

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Aquest llibre reprèn el fonaments d'una crítica marxista a la salut/malaltia iniciada pel Col·lectiu Socialista de Pacients els anys 70s.

Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.If you’re wondering whether the text of a book with a title like “Health Communism” lives up to it, the answer is “yes. Personally, I enjoyed this overview of various health systems and how they can and cannot work without our current (American) structures.

It makes a direct assault on the idea that health can survive under capitalism, where the sick are simply disposable, while the system making a killing along the way. I’m also an avid Death Panel listener so I was familiar with some of their arguments and had a lot of context, but parts of it were still hard to understand. The part that hit the least for me was the history of SPK - because while the theory is solid and so recognizably true, everyone quoted from and involved with SPK just seemed annoying and/or unhinged, but that's how I tend to feel about most super lefty ~praxis groups~ lol. Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant have been a lifeline for many during the COVID-19 pandemic through their Death Panel podcast, deconstructing the failed American response with a knife that cuts like truth.Remember Huber's saying: "death to therapy, death to iatro-capitalist system" (in: "SPK indeed - What the SPK really did and said", published by KRRIM in 2007, see: http://spkpfh. I definitely found some of the ideas in this book valuable and interesting, and the SPK history was particularly of interest, albeit a bit lacking in analysis, but I think the book was ultimately muddled by its scope, and its liberal use of jargon.