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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.
Continue reading...Where’s the Justice?
1. September 2007
Those who want to “crack down on crime” ignore the root cause of crime; the capitalist system of organized thievery.
Continue reading...The Secret: Snake Oil for the Soul
22. February 2007
The Secret assumes that we live in a just world where those who suffer must be doing something wrong.
Continue reading...Anger is the Emotion of Injustice
17. February 2007
Anger is an instinctive, automatic response to unfairness.
Continue reading...Tookie Was Right. They Want You to Blame Yourself
8. November 2006
The labor movement has a slogan, An Injury to One is an Injury to All. Capitalism has a different slogan, It’s All Your Fault.
Continue reading...We Must Pull Together or Be Pulled Apart
14. October 2006
By focusing on individuals, the medical system dissipates the class rage that propels social change.
Continue reading...Guantanamo Madness
29. September 2006
What's the definition of social insanity? Treating torture as normal and branding the victim's reactions as abnormal.
Continue reading...The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
1. January 1999
The myth of scarcity is used to limit access to medical care and other social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.
Continue reading...The Crime of Punishment
1. August 1997
In Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes, James Gilligan dismantles the myths that most crimes are violent, that most violence is illegal, that most perpetrators are male, that most victims are female, and that violence will diminish if more criminals are imprisoned or executed.
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