Health Communism A Surplus Manifesto 1st Edition by Beatrice Adler Bolton, Artie Vierkant ISBN 1839765194 9781839765193

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ISBN 10: 1839765194 
ISBN 13: 9781839765193
Author: Beatrice Adler Bolton, Artie Vierkant

Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, 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.

Health Communism A Surplus Manifesto 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Surplus

• Explores how the traditional understanding of the “surplus population” as a drain on society disguises its true function as a site of extraction within modern capitalism.

Chapter 2: Waste

• Argues that severing health from capital is essential to ending capitalism.
• Outlines the historical connection between capitalism, health, eugenics, racism, ableism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry.

Chapter 3: Labor

• Presents a detailed history of how health has been oriented around the division of the population into “productive workers” (for capital owners) and those “unable or unwilling to work” (who become waste/surplus).

Chapter 4: Madness

• Examines how mental health management became a complementary system to capitalism, controlling the divide between “suitable workers” and those deemed “unfit,” thereby maintaining the surplus as a site of extractive abandonment.

Chapter 5: Border

• Argues that the global expansion of capitalism extends the logic of extractive abandonment internationally.
• Expresses pessimism for strictly national attempts at healthcare reform.

Chapter 6: Care and Cure

• Focuses on the Socialist Patient’s Collective (SPK) of Germany and the anti-psychiatric movement.
• Draws lessons from these historical experiences.

Later Chapters (Themes implied by overall argument):

• Discussions on “extractive abandonment” as a process.
• The argument that capitalism fundamentally degrades human well-being and then sells “health” back as a product.
• Advocacy for a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the “surplus” and rejects basing human value on productivity within the current political economy.
• A call for “health communism,” meaning “all care for all people.”

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