many modern psychiatric institutions are exactly this (in more liberal states)
schizophrenics, autistics, failed suicides, bipolars, etc. that are institutionalized are almost all leftists. I did not meet one chud. You get free food for life and don’t have to work. You’re surrounded by comrades.
Often I preferred my institutionalization to being on the outside. The nurses and patients really cared about me and liked me and I got to read books and be in the garden all day. I could also just do crazy things like scream LIBERATION and nobody would bat an eye and that’s a very cool feeling
jails are similar, but obviously more violent and dangerous. this is how the Maoist prison ministry thing works, multiple Maoist parties actually germinated in a cell - like CPI (Maoist)
(personal experience, outside of the US)
spoiler
neurodivergent people rock, yes of course the institutions are fundamentally oppressive but the people inside them are wonderful. The food sucks though
mental health, rehabilitation, prison abolition are all extremely important superstructural contradictions to resolve in the broader liberatory struggle
people don’t magically become empathetic, it’s not just a matter of shallow economism as introductory Marxism pretends - it requires active cultural and interpersonal struggle
fight for it and never give up comrade :hammerandsickle:
true story
many modern psychiatric institutions are exactly this (in more liberal states)
schizophrenics, autistics, failed suicides, bipolars, etc. that are institutionalized are almost all leftists. I did not meet one chud. You get free food for life and don’t have to work. You’re surrounded by comrades.
Often I preferred my institutionalization to being on the outside. The nurses and patients really cared about me and liked me and I got to read books and be in the garden all day. I could also just do crazy things like scream LIBERATION and nobody would bat an eye and that’s a very cool feeling
jails are similar, but obviously more violent and dangerous. this is how the Maoist prison ministry thing works, multiple Maoist parties actually germinated in a cell - like CPI (Maoist)
(personal experience, outside of the US)
spoiler
neurodivergent people rock, yes of course the institutions are fundamentally oppressive but the people inside them are wonderful. The food sucks though
thanks, now i yearn to be dumped in a psychiatric ward for the rest of my life :comfy:
it’s like a negation of life in the imperial core and it was actually quite pleasant
again, everything in capitalism is a lie
shame im in the u.s
pretty sure any attempt to get into this mecca of leftist community living would just result in cops shooting me for posing a threat.
assuming the idea even held water in the u.s in the first place. i know basically nothing about u.s institutionalization
yup
mental health, rehabilitation, prison abolition are all extremely important superstructural contradictions to resolve in the broader liberatory struggle
people don’t magically become empathetic, it’s not just a matter of shallow economism as introductory Marxism pretends - it requires active cultural and interpersonal struggle
fight for it and never give up comrade :hammerandsickle:
:heart-sickle:
Do you know if there's anything written about this phenomenon? This makes a ton of sense to me and I'd love to learn more if there's more to learn.
Personal experience and reading a bunch of left books - nothing specific comes to mind
oppressed people turn out to be very nice
Word, yeah, figured that was a long shot. Would make for some great reporting or research though.
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