The way psychiatry treats those who deviate from the norm is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly line—something that manufacturing started moving away from by the mid-20th century.
Tag: Social systems
Michael Parenti: Against Psychopolitics
Many great public issues as well as many private troubles are described in terms of the “psychiatric” — often, it seems, in a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery, and increases in crimes even more rapidly than in numbers.
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Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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