
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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The Role of Social Conditions in Mental Illness
Andin: I've talked about my struggles with depression. And i cannot disregard the fact that my working conditions so often totally fluck me up. There's an article that fisher wrote for the occupied times called good for nothing. He says this, for some time now, one of the most successful tactics of the ruling class has been responsibilization. The belief that it's within every individual's power to make themselves whatever they want to be is the dominant ideology and unofficial religion of contemporary capitalist society. Pushed by reality t v experts and business goroos, and us Presidents as much as by politicians. Magical volunteerism is both an effect and a cause of the currently historically low levels
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