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Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry

Movement Memos

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The Resurgent Dynamic Around Covid

When the concept of health functions as a means to exclude people or signifying who has value to society, it becomes a weapon wielded against us. S p k argued that the solution was to make illness into a weapon and to unite as a sick proletariat to divorce care from capitalism. Rather than fighting for better ventilation systems or universal health care, a lot of people are sort of surrendering to the virus because the media and the government have convinced people that this is all completely inevitable.

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