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Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry

Movement Memos

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The Importance of Medical Authority in the United States

Health communism stresses the importance of prison abolition and efforts to abolish surveillance. The medical system is a site of extraction target people who have been injured or overworked, or who have otherwise become no longer exploitable as workers by capital. It's actually very difficult, i think, to separate the history of the development of medical authority and the carsoral structures of the united states.

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