Social Oppression and Medicine (2009)

In our times, medicine and psychiatry represent the real force of social oppression. In this contest the productive and idle classes clash. The doctors are drawn from a privileged elite which has never performed any productive labour. The working class is discriminated against at ever turn in their contact with the doctors.

In the United States barely 11 million uninsured are claimed to need $1.1 trillion of medical aid in the proposed reforms. The reality is that most of those uninsured do not want contact with doctors, social workers or administrators. The figure of the uninsured at 44 million persons include the medically fit, the soldiers, the federally insured civil servants and those who do not want any contact with the upper classes posing as doctors.

The doctors have forced 114,000 (2006) into welfare dependency and claimed that 30,000 of this number are “mentally ill”. This equates to about one in fifteen of the population. The doctor’s apologists in medical research claim that 22% of Catholics and 20% of Protestants suffer from mental illness at some stage. Other pundits project mental illness as a phenomenon in the life of every person in the North. In the U.S. only 400,000 out of a population of 300 million people are in psychiatric care. These projections and ideas are motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology of those who profit from this trade in idleness, sloth and death. In Sweden, the psychiatric catchment group of a population of eight millions is only 30,000 “schizophrenics”.
The reality is that Paul Goggins, former Minister for Health in Northern Ireland, trimmed a twelve-bed intensive care unit and two 24-bed admission wards to a single 14-bed unit to be opened in 2011 for Fermanagh and Tyrone on the basis of the real needs and situation which I informed him about in 2007. In 1974, the same psychiatric institution had 1,400 inmates.
From 1,400 to 14!

The failure to crush fascism in the universities, the judiciary and medicine in the 1940s and its re-emergence in the slander and poisoning of such a vast number of working and unemployed workers is manifested in psychiatry and medicine.

The rise of sloth is consonant with the decline of British society into panes et circes. Disability Living Allowance i.e. hidden unemployment, mass sport and industrial collapse are the prominent features of contemporary British society. These were also the features of the slow death of the Roman Empire. English society is going the same way under the guidance of a privileged, unaccountable elite. Soul-searching is encouraged by the self-seeking elite of doctors to the detriment of society and the working life. This is psychiatry looked at internally and externally. Psychiatry is discriminating on social grounds and dragging society into the abyss of welfare dependence, sloth and economic collapse.

Like Pitt’s England we need to launch a new era in reform by cutting the medical placemen, social workers and medical administrators to survive the crisis.