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Health Communism (Hardcover)
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Health Communism (Hardcover)
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List price R523
Loot Price R473
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In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and
Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism
and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties
between capital and one of its primary tools: health. Written by
co-hosts of the hit "Death Panel" podcast and longtime disability
justice and healthcare activists Adler-Bolton and Vierkant, Health
Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health,
disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as
"surplus," regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the
healthy from the surplus, the worker from the "unfit" to work, the
authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark
whole populations for extraction by the industries that have
emerged to manage and contain this "surplus" population. Health
Communism then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global
public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have
successfully challenged the extractive economy of health.
Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in
defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this
will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the
surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value
of human life on one's willingness or ability to be productive
within the current political economy. Capital, it turns out, only
fears health.
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