201. We Are All Surplus (ft. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant)

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 8:27 p.m.

b'We are joined by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant \\u2014 co-hosts of Death Panel \\u2014 to discuss their truly excellent new book, Health Communism, which offers a searing analysis of how our conceptions and systems of health are critical to the maintenance of capitalism. Under capitalism we are all human waste: the sick and surplus that are drains on productive society. If you don\\u2019t think you are, then just wait long enough and hopefully you\\u2019ll live long enough to meet that fate. Health communism is both the reason for tearing down this system and an alternative that reclaims health for all people\\u2014not just the bosses and workers, but for those great many subjected to the extractive abandonment of being marked as surplus.\\n\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Health Communism: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Death Panel: https://www.deathpanel.net/\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Beatrice: https://twitter.com/realLandsEnd\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Artie: https://twitter.com/avierkant \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'