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Behavioural Genetics: The ‘Respectable’ Face of Racism

Jun 27, 2016 | Racism

Why challenge capitalism if human misery is rooted in our biology or defective genes?

Biological psychiatry treats mental distress as an individual defect. Marxism treats it as the inevitable consequence of capitalist oppression.

Jul 10, 2015 | Media, Podcasts

The concept of individual ‘mental illness’ diverts attention from the mass suffering caused by capitalist rule.

Sigmund Freud began his career as an advocate of the oppressed then switched sides to support the oppressors.

May 4, 2015 | Capitalism

Since the 19th century, the capitalist class have used philanthropy to shape society in their own interests.

The liberal notion of personal choice conceals how profoundly capitalism shapes our lives.