1. Siding with the Enemy
Sideways
00:00
Stockholm Syndrome - A Cliche, Not a Cliche
"I always felt that I did something wrong. I shouldn't have spoken to all of Palme like that," she says. "What's incredible about this entire episode is nobody bothered to ask Christine while she felt the way she did." She got pathologized by people in mental health who didn't have the ethics to bother talking to her, he writes. Instead of seeing the situation from the perspective of the victim, we see it as partly their fault,. Hostages should trust the police, even when they've been let down by them, rather than the kidnappers. Marxists think that workers should trust the revolutionary vanguard, never the capitalists.
Transcript
Play full episode
