boof-chamber on Nostr: The need for life reveals itself most immediately in the empirically experienced ...

The need for life reveals itself most immediately in the empirically experienced limitation of and threat to life, in illness as the way we exist in capitalism. Illness is inseparably bound up with psychological stress, with the need for change, with the need for production. Illness understood as a contradictory moment of life, carries within it the kernel and energy of its own negation, the will to life. At the same time it’s the repression, the negation of life. As the negation of life, however, it isn’t only an abstract negation of the merely biological (empirical) life process, but rather at the same time and essentially the product and negation of the conditions for “life,” that is of the prevailing social relations of production.