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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
A good X,where X is some social role, is one who makes all the (countless, tiny) decisions required to perform that role in accordance with a substantive role-ideal. Constructing a role-ideal requires critical reflection on the purposes and aims of the role, how it might be modified to better achieve them, what auxiliary roles should be created or modified, and how to collaborate with others possessing similar aims.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
Asking the simple question “How would this species behave if it were well adapted to its environment?” leads to hypotheses that provide excellent starting points for scientific inquiry, even if not all of them prove to be correct. This is called “adaptationist” or “natural selection” thinking, and it is one of the most powerful tools in the evolutionary toolkit,
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
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