Tag: marxist theory
From Picket Lines to Worry Lines
In Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress, Iain Ferguson aims to use the marxist approach ānot only to make sense of mental distress but also help us address and change the material conditions that give rise to it.ā He begins by describing the ācrisis in mental healthā that disproportionately affects the unemployed, poor, and oppressed.
America’s Opioid Crisis Proves the Limits of Capitalism
In this piece forĀ RT,Ā Slavoj Žižek discusses the impact of capitalism on America's opioid crisis, exploring the factors that have driven people to use drugs...
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
In Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness, Bruce Cohen explains the expanding power and influence of psychiatry in terms of its usefulness to the capitalist system ā the more useful it is, the more power it is given, and the greater its power, the more useful it becomes.
