[lbo-talk] Finding Sanity in a Mad World

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 20 19:15:25 PST 2007


Arash wrote:
>
> >From the blog entry:
>
> The root of all our depression is capitalism and the only solution is to
> join a fighting working class party to combat it.
>
> http://newworkerfeatures.blogspot.com/2007/02/finding-sanity-in-mad-world.html
>
> Arash:
>
> Oh, so rather than narrowly addressing depression in terms of brain
> functioning we should instead narrowly address it in terms of capitalist
> oppression? Well, thanks for clearing that up.

O.K. I called the original post nonsense -- but this is equal nonsense. Brain function does not happen in a vacuum. (I have suffered from depression for 60 years -- diagnosed for about 25 years.)

Carrol



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