If you truly say you are for the proletariat you have to ground yourself to materialist analysis. If you think your theory has more potential that speaks for the people better, then its better that you cooperate with the party that understood the dialectics and led the revolution instead of useless chantings that the one party isn’t the way. There’s a reason their revolution was successful. Do material analysis first and realize why, than focusing on ideological thinking that “there are always differences”. if there are differences then there are ways to solve those differences within the party.

Top image- bourgeoisie economist Bottom image- bourgeoisie economist (spicy)

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf

this came up in my feed a few days ago, electoralism and its consequences

Damn Xi Jinpig owns Harvard now, the communism is getting stronger than ever in the land of the free /s

I understand, what I mean isn’t supposed to apply for all of therapy or psychiatry, or even to all depressed and anxious patients. I just wanted to point out the systemic issue that psychologists need to understand and apply to so that it can be easily accessible to all. This is not limited to treatment of certain mental disorders, but also to the way mental health treatment is itself accessible to those who can’t afford it. I see how what I said may seem like a generalization, and I apologize for that.

This is made to be hard work because its so internalized in us that its just the way it is, that the system makes it as hard as possible for the people to be class conscious. I appreciate it, but I’m still learning. And so are you. As long as we are actively questioning the reality around us, nobody is more or less equal

I think this should be bookmarked by now, but marxists archive has a section on marxist psychology in general, and there is another section on education, which is also relevant, hope it helps comrade.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/psychology/index.htm

similar to anti-vax movement? What? Psychology (and to extension medicine) is so corrupt because of how bourgeoisie it is, with poor people not being able to get any sort of healthcare (mental health related or not). People who live minimum wage, paycheck to paycheck are more than disillussioned with what the current state is. My argument, towards the mental health system is that it does not have a Marxist perspective and only a Marxist informed therapist can effectively know what to say to people who don’t know what to do.

Each illness has a different root cause, and its not just depression that these days is a sub product of capitalism. I want to know what are the other root causes you are mentioning?

Schizophrenia and bipolar patients are told to swallow pill after pill which does nothing but keep their sanity at bay. Is their autonomy not essential to their well being? And behold, if pills cannot “control” them, what happens? They are admitted to mental asylums, rehab centres, which ALSO profits off of it.

What about PTSD? Is PTSD not a sub product of capitalism, because, patriarchy which, is one of the many gruesome ways capitalism manifests itself, abuses women and somehow (not surprisingly) the people who have connections get away with it. Capitalism controls what they deem to be quality education and what isn’t. If you don’t provide proper sex education to someone and they somehow sexually assault someone, its the fault of the system as a whole. If that person also doesn’t get punished for it, it is also the fault of the system.

I remember a quote of a revolutionary who said something along the lines of all proletariat thinkers being depressed because that is what is needed for people to realize their worth.

I recognize saying that therapists just tell you to accept reality is a faulty way of thinking and by no means can it be a generalization. But is it really working? Is psychotherapy doing its job?

Ohh! I posted this because one of my batchmates quoted a meme post of a client complaining he doesn’t want to work and to die (with the therapist asking them to accept it), by saying the OP of the post is bigoted??? and talks about how the biopsychosocial model is the most effective right now, etc. Like, it doesn’t matter if IT IS BEING REGARDED AS THE MOST EFFECTIVE right now, because it still doesn’t mean its doing the job. As someone else above pointed out, humanistic Rogerian psychotherapy, postive psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, existential, CBT, no other school as it is right now will be able to effectively claim to FIX a person’s material reality while actively NOT accepting the exploitation of the people

I’m glad it helped you but I never dissuaded anyone from getting help. I just emphasized the need for a Marxist perspective to be integrated in practice

don’t you get it? how can we establish democratic peace if we don’t bomb those russians and take over their land? You can’t be kind and talk it out, especially against these russians. Now I understand civilians are involved. But then, why did they vote for Putsin? They aren’t so different from the government, and if they hate it so much, just get out of there. not that difficult. why are people talking about international peace relations as if it can be achieved? Violence is inherent in us. It is a human trait. Didn’t international peace cause Stalin and Nazi Germany to kill 10 trillion people? People should take this more seriously and keep emotions off politics. For fucks sake.

Ahh no I absolutely didn’t mean i) or iii). Marxist or non-Marxist, I just want to study the content itself. Thank you for the recommendations!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this what you would fucking expect if you agreed to WAR? Did they think it was gonna be easy?

The actual funny infighting

I get that, so if I understand correctly, then Marx’s analysis does not rely on saying its human nature to be evil whatever, so the same way it does not also need to rely on saying its human nature ANYTHING, because its all needed to be realized under historical contexts and what has happened that makes said humans that way/does not make them

Thank you for your reply, I had my own biases due to myself being highly sensitive towards kindness and empathy, so I appreciate you, I understand why even if I think my biases are good, they also need to be desconstructed.

I mean the latter, because you have to be self aware and have core principles of empathy/love and solidarity to even realize why class consciousness and Marxist education is needed