Archive | Blaming the Victim RSS feed for this section
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.
Continue reading...
- Engels and the WHO Report
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
- Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
- Class, Health and Health Care
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (13)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (9)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate (4)
- Machismo at Work (4)
- War in the House of Labor (4)
- Appeal from Gaza - Please Help Us!
- Blood Money
- In Palestine, not even the birds are free
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Engels and the WHO Report
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Mujeres traicionadas
Latest Videos
- New York City protest against Israeli War - December 28, 2008
- Workers occupy Chicago factory and win
- SEIU Health Workers Fight for Union Democracy
- California Nurses March for Universal Health Care
- Iraq Veterans Against the War Demonstrate in Denver
- Inequality and Illness in America (www.unnaturalcauses.org)
18. May 2008
13 Comments