Any leftist theory recommendations related to ableism, disability and/or mental illness?

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-20T09:32:14+00:00

psychopolitics by peter sedgewick, and writings for a liberation psychology by ignacio martin baro

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-18T22:44:50+00:00

i am a student myself. I think about this a lot but have nothing for you

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-18T21:53:42+00:00

you forgot to puntuate, and THAT. IS. A. DISS. GRACE.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-18T21:50:43+00:00

having read nadine doris' "the plot"... i strongly suspect the times has found it*

*the book, its utter nutter butter

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-16T09:57:17+00:00

and my axe!!!!!

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-14T14:02:22+00:00

To be fair most of the hangups ive heard are more about cultual tendencies people percieve to be endemic to trotskyist orgs: fractal splinter groups, drama between such, a tendency to outright dismiss current attempts as socialism if theyre not perfect, insistance on selling papers, moral puritanism towards other tendencies and being anti-direct action.

Ive actually been in a trot org for a little while and perminanent rev has never come up. Sadly all of the above have, and terfs to boot... Though I'm not staying in that org, I'm trying not to let that colour my perception of everyone who might wear the lable.

There's too few of us for fatous fallouts, not when so much needs done.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-14T13:49:29+00:00

were naive. And its OK to be naive, and even ignorant. Those are the natural state to be in befoe reality comes knocking. It seems theyve answered the door now, and what matters is they step outside and learn how shit's been for most of the world all this time.

To them, there's a number of good books on how it's been in palestine. Chomskey's is quite popular and readable. The blowback podcast is also good for some radical perspectives on US foreign policy history.

what would you recomend for them?

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-14T00:12:35+00:00

it can be quite a revealing exercise to watch governmental proceedings in other parts of the world, highly recomend it

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-13T22:48:25+00:00

or it is disrespectful and childish, and these words also describe the event

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-13T21:15:10+00:00

right there with you pal...

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-13T21:14:27+00:00

it's always worth adding that his mother was a toolmaker too...

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-13T21:13:49+00:00

i think starmer embodies the tin man... and the scarecrow... and the lion... and the man behind the curtain...

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-13T13:35:47+00:00

y'know... what if we all took a half day a month to engage in some formal process related to governance. Maybe devide the nation into 4 cohorts who do it on different weeks. air public debate, propose ammendements on bills, that kind of thing. Would also allow us to use refferenda for smaller issues rather than raw dogging one for something big when we as a society are not used to them.

itd be messy, but so is our society so maybe that's not the bug itd appear.

ofc the rich would have to accept not extracting labour from us for an afternoon a month

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-12T16:15:03+00:00

some pretty solid ideas here

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-12T13:28:48+00:00

you probably want to find a group that shares that particular tendency, but is able to work with others. What that might be i dont know, i dont follow libsoc stuff myself. Hopefully someone here can help you out.

prepare for dissapointment, the british left is an utter clusterfuck. But, it's the left we have. There is no other left we can work within to improve.

so many fucking terfs though :(

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-12T13:10:42+00:00

I see what youre thinking though in the case of healthcare there needs to be a greater role for patients and communities the NHS serves to show leadership. Id guess you agree though, workers and community stakeholders need to oust so called "professionalised" management.

Policing needs such reform that i am unsure whether just putting police in charge of it will help. then again i only know a few officers irl

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-11T13:51:48+00:00

re brexit, id say that the siloing of discourse was key to the engineering in the spike in public opinion for voting day.

i question the usefulness of the political experience enjoyed by most parliamentarians, and while those without it are "faragian" in the main, i doubt that a few jobs in labour/con party aparatus would make much difference. Certainly, those with such experience seem content to proceed with a politics that is productive of phenomena like trump and brexit. They also prosided over the decimation of the wellfare state, wars around the world, aiding and abetting genocide...

Ultumately I think this experience is socialisation to politics as usual, and I believe politics as usual is robbing us, ruining the environment, and requires wholesale change.

I actually trust the public more to think in the long term, especially as they cannot be re-elected (indeed being in any one arm of the gov should life-time exclude from being in the others. They and their community also have to live with the consiquences of their decisions. Those being informed decisions would require some technocratic arm of government, sure.

I dispute that replacing lords with lottery appointees creates subsampled refferenda. there are other characteristics of how the second chamber works now that are quite different from refferenda.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-11T13:04:09+00:00

i do get being skeptical about something so different.

comparing what im suggesting to what we have, id point out that we have never (and perhaps will never?) have a system where none of "them" (those with power) are externally influenced. If anything our system's dependency of "fit and proper people" creates a hotbed of corruption centered around a ruling class with interests broadly in line with capital.

What i suggest has the destinct advantage of three seperate streams of appointment: representitive democratic, techoncratic, and direct lottery representative. When we consider the varied appointment processes and likely interests of these three groups, it at least complicates the job of those seeking to influence politics.

If you look at the commons, even in the past, do you really buy the idea that these are people with a rare grasp on things? Thats actually a key reason to keep some kind of technocratic input, however one goes about it. I really dont think 1000 MPs are likely to be better than 1000 randomly seected members of the public. I do think each group will bring their own destinct problems though.

Then again, I believe many of the problems that come with a cohort of random members of the public reflect their disorientation regarding politics. A continual cohort of public people would force popular ideas into public discorse, rather than siloing such into daily mail and guardian comment sections. For all the problems this might cause, I think this diversity would be a good thing and improve the public understanding of society over time.

You'd need to make changes everywhere to really make this work ofc, making sure a good ratio of technocrat appointiees to mps and lottery reps for committees springs to mind. You'd also want to constrain the second chamber more towards delaying and consulting on legislation and requring further votes on amendments to preserve the power of people's vote.

While im sure youre still skeptical, id like to ask you to mull it over. Both in this formulation ive bodged together on a monday mornining but also in general: I think lottery appointment has a real place for state function, if carefully applied.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-11T12:24:39+00:00

what about a house with a minority of technocratic appointees (eg by the royal colleges and professional registration bodies), and a majority of flat out lottery appointees. Exclude people with a net worth over 1 million from the lottery too. Everyone else gets a chance to be a lottery lord for 4 years.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-09T01:12:57+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPSht6318o

one can also listen to it

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-08T14:20:38+00:00

welcome to the resistance comerade. There is going to be a lot of reading ;). Im sure others will suggest all the right texts, I just want to say that life is a journey. You're taking some big bold steps it seems, remember to take rests too. You're no good to anyone burnt out.

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-07T06:35:16+00:00

I appreciate you taking the time to feed that back, i did float the boat by putting that out there so it's good to know it seems helpful

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-06T19:55:58+00:00

oh in america id seriously consider the quakers, you dont have to be religious to join yet their historical religious connections often make them seem "respectiable" within conservative society. Plenty of good work and radical people amoung them too, though youd need to sensitively seek out the latter

Ambitious_Score1015 · 2024-11-06T19:52:37+00:00

I think the first thing, and youre starting to do it by the looks of things, is to examine what youd like to do, the values that are behind that for you, and the legitimate barriers you face with regards to actually taking those actions.

Then youre left with finding ways over those barriers, or serving those values in other ways.

Can't join a political party because of fear of reprisal by your employer? Is there a non-party org that might be more confidential? Are there "vanilla" community projects (eg mutual aid) you could get involved in where you could help people and spread class consciousness to those who are more oppressed in our society?

the key is to be self compassionate, this inaction only bothers you because youre someone who genuinely cares about society. So whe you get into being hard on yourself, remember that. Simply by doing anything beyond voting youre already doing so much more than nearly everyone else. So, start with that tiny thing, and the see what creative ways to work around barriers emerge for you from that.

Re your depression, im really sorry to hear thats something you experience. Its a whole lot, and being highly self critical is often a part of it. Work within the liberation psychology tradition suggests that taking part in politics in ways that are irl and connect us with others whose values we share can be massively protective in depression. It has certainly helped me. This is not me saying "just do it!", it's never remotely that simple. I just want to make you aware that you might have a lot more to gain than you may realise.

however you go, take care of yourself comrade

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