boof-chamber on Nostr: Just as the falling stone could not be fully explained outside the context of ...

Just as the falling stone could not be fully explained outside the context of gravity, the SPK concluded that mental illness could not be fully explained outside the context of capitalism. This is because the psychological condition of an individual is the embodiment of the social relations that characterize the society in which that individual exists. Starting from the Marxist understanding that capitalism has produced the necessary conditions for its replacement with a society free from exploitation and oppression in which one can obtain all that one needs to live, the SPK explains (to quote their polemic again) that “the individual’s need for life contradicts capital’s need for surplus value; the symptom is the immediately sensually perceptible unity of this contradiction.