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And if it is true that all acts of distribution require a prior “structural” process of production ( else there would be nothing to distribute), it is equally true that all production requires prior, and equally “structural,” processes of distribution, since workers do not, after all, spring into the world fully formed and ready to report to work but instead in a logically and temporally prior state of utter dependence on others.
Give a Man a Fish
James Ferguson
Health under capitalism is an impossibility. Under capitalism, to attain health you must work, you must be productive and normative, and only then are you entitled to the health you can buy. This fantasy of individual health under the political-economic conditions of capitalism only ever exists as a state one cannot be, to which one must always strive.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we should require as many hearts as there are suffering beings. And if we had a miraculously present memory which sustained the totality of our past pains, we should succumb beneath such a burden. Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
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