M&M - Marx & Medicine

the gang reads a few articles and has some fun wit it

https://www.jezebel.com/health-care-workers-say-conditions-for-pregnant-people-in-gaza-are-getting-worse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/radical-far-left-kamala-harriss-policies-are-just-common-sense-to-most-americans

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000434?form=fpf

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correction (25:17) - meant to say ‘Communist Party’ rather than PFLP, which wasn’t founded until 1967.

outro: that’s my floor by Magdalena Bay

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the gang does the obligatory post-Trump-almost-assassination coverage. for all our enemies, remember that this is also a comedy podcast in addition to a political podcast so nothing we say counts and that’s on period

today Bae leads us as we get into the wellness industry in the context of Western/Zionist imperial dominance and how colonizer frameworks undergird seemingly unrelated facets of economics, culture, and technology. who is allowed to be well? should the ability to live a safe and meaningful life rely on trite notions of individual physical & psychological consciousness, or consumer choices on the market? if so, who has access to these markets? if not, shouldn’t our goal be to overcome the entire concept of wellness and reterritorialize it onto a more historical and social stratum?

outro music: not like us by kendrick lamar

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we discuss the death of Henry Kissinger and the legacy he left behind - specifically in Occupied Palestine & Vietnam - which has made its mark in every corner of the world and endures to this day.

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outro: tin man by feeble little horse

kickstarting our ‘health and wellness’ miniseries and just in time for halloween, we discuss the deeply disturbing ‘project’ that is Bryan Johnson - a 46 year old multi-millionaire hellbent on staying young and horny forever.

as the spiritual successor to our discussion from episode 15, we break down yet another L for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration by the Supreme Court.

outro: whitehouse road by Tyler Childers

today we review some articles. first one is from Medscape, who has seemingly lost the plot with several recent, absolutely bizarre offerings. we also discuss some ‘market activity’ involving health insurance companies and hospitals - don’t you love it when the most important thing is not patient care or health worker wellbeing but stock prices for healthcare capitalist vultures? we round things out with consent manufacture and State management of homeless people with mental illness. the peasants YEARN for reinstitutionalization, thank u Eric Adams!

outro: wave by João Gilberto

well, the shootings start comin and they don’t stop comin…

in the wake of the recent mass violence event in Texas, we talk mass shootings - primarily dissecting the active ideological choice State actors make of placing ‘mental health’ at the center of bourgeois discourse regarding gun violence, mass killings, and other phenotypic manifestations of a reactionary resurgence in the US.

outro: new earth by Cass McCombs

we welcome esteemed friend of the pod and M&M’s official Canadian Correspondent Kristel Jax to the show to discuss - in broad terms - concepts, movements, and nascent legal structures encompassing the ‘right to die,’ Medical Assistance In Dying, and (Physician) Assisted Suicide in Canada and the United States. how are today’s moral values embedded in the ways in which we talk (or don’t) about death, let alone the idea of death itself? how do cultural production and the ‘Spectacle-ization’ of medicine shape modern mythologies about end-of-life care? how might economic coercion alter our potentials in life in the most general sense possible? well, it may result in Capital’s most monstrous decoding yet: the commoditization of death.

legislation is on the table for millions upon millions of people in North America in the coming years, and we are still very early into the existing legal frameworks. it’s something we all might have an interest in paying more attention to in the future. special bonus on this episode: intermittent pug noises (if that’s your thing)

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**correction: the Terri Schiavo case was about whether or not to discontinue tube feeding, not mechanical ventilation.

outro: memory by Whitney

shiver me fingers !!!! (it’s cold now and happy christmas)

in between visits from Skinner and a WiFi cut-out plotted by our most despised enemies, Sigmund Fraud leads our discussion on Cerebral, an online medication/therapy service self-described as ‘expert help for your emotional health.’ we go into what it offers, what people who have worked at Cerebral thought of it, and where it fits into the broader, already-fractured, capitalist healthcare milieu.

music:

46’ do you remember - john vanderslice

1:11’ mayla - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros

1:29’ mookie’s last christmas - saosin