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Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto by Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton

joy_b's review

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

drivera55's review

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

schomj's review

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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

superpuffin's review

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No explanation whatsoever. Just "this is my plan in three parts, with a grain of unspecific statements with nothing to back them up".
It feels like a giant summarization of all their sources without the actual depth of them. At this point, I'm just going to read the sources directly.

ellis_the_larcenist's review

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informative slow-paced

2.0

hanbanshee's review

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4.0

While I really do feel this text makes some really important contributions and YES to centring the surplus, I find it confounding that such an analysis particularly when coming from settler colonial US wouldn’t engage more with Indigenous thinkings and anti-colonial thought, along with Black Marxist texts and a bit more from disability justice—you know, texts that already centre the surplus? And that have a more nuanced analysis of what has constituted this surplus in settler colonial capitalist nation states? I’m over Marxist economic analyses that don’t also grapple in good faith with colonialism.

_w_o_o_l_'s review

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

damienhhh's review

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challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

apk98's review

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challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

hushed's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

every time you learn something about the influence business and capitalism have had on health care you realize how much of scam things have become and it calls into question more and more aspects of society. things could be better and we, as community, a society, should be able to make it better, more accessible, fairer, and cheaper.