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A Social Definition of Class

1. June 2008

A social definition of class explains why the capitalist class will never put people first, why the middle class will always try to contain the forces of rebellion, and why only the working class has the numbers, the power and the motivation to replace capitalism with an egalitarian socialist society

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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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.

Machismo at Work

29. September 2007

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Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.

Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

26. May 2007

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Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Inequality affects the health of populations more than diet, smoking, exercise and access to medical care.