chapotraphouse

I feel like sometimes, people forget capitalism, at a certain point, is all about creating problems and then "solving" them. I mean, we already mostly figured out the solutions to things like food and water scarcity, entertainment, child care, and at minimum 60% of problems human face. With the new era, we aren't trying to solve problems, not really. We're trying to solve problems under capitalism, which is a, and forgive my slightly ableist language, a "fool's errand" - a task that will never be completed so long as the thousands of artificial obstacles exist.

People talking about medications in the comments, and sure, medicines are good, but they could easily be produced in higher qualities, in larger pallets, in whatver-metrics-you-need-to-measure, because you no longer have Eli and Lilly trying to tell the doctors that they need to do this or that to ensure Goldman Sachs gets their money.

I would like to believe this post isn't a critique of solving problems, it's a critique of the capitalist methodology of forcing artificial scarcity (reducing your mental health when you are continuously deprived of your basic survival needs) and trying to "solve" that artificial scarcity within the framework of the capitalist system. Even if you create super-psychiatry, even if you create super-mega-perfect-psychiatry, you will never create a good psychiatry, and you ask why?

It's because of capitalism. The problem is not that many problems exist, because the reason many problems exist is because somebody is forcing them to exist. And it's capitalism. Maybe I'm mixing up the primary and secondary contradictions a little bit here, but if you remove the systems empowering, upholding, and catering the whims of all these awful, selfish, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, specialist, any other bigotries I haven't named, then how can they continue to exist?

If, in the new socialist society, the bourgeoisie and their reactionary squires don't have a leg to stand on, then they fall. So, to the hypothetical medicine lover here, it's not that medicine sucks, it's that medicine is constrained and beholden to the whims of capitalism. I'd like to think this is a pretty moderate (moderate in terms of socialist / communist ideology) take, but if it isn't moderate, then please tell me why it isn't.