M&M - Marx & Medicine

fidel and bae discuss the “ceasefire” in Gaza, the unraveling of the rules-based international order, (non-)violence, and the future of M&M.https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-venezuela-attacks-liberal-order/#outro: revelation 420 - Algernon Cadwallader This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

fireside chat with fidel and bae. Gaza & manufacturing famine, Professionalism & manufacturing behavior, primitive accumulation & manufacturing extraction, etc. etc.The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat by Gilles Deleuzeoutro music: mangetout by Wet Leg This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

of course we ‘had to do it to em.’ Bae & Fidel discuss how H.R.1, or the ‘one big beautiful bill act,’ has its fingerprints not only on healthcare concerns such as Medicaid, the ACA marketplace, and rural care, but also on immigration enforcement that will color the future of ICE raids, detention camps, and beyond. oh there’s also tax cuts for the rich (there’s always fuckn tax cuts for the rich). we also cover some good news, so stay tuned to the closing minutes of the program for a too-rare private equity L.outro music: pyramid of health by Viagra Boys This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

Fidel and Bae have a fireside chat and read a few articles. names mentioned: John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, Debbie Dingell, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, Casey Means, Luigi Mangione, Andrew Witty, Bryan Thompson. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

Fidel, Bae, & Sigmund review the most recent 500 days of genocide in Gaza (~12:00), discuss the ceasefire agreement (~28:20), and then have a little more fun reflecting on Joe Biden’s overall disastrous tenure as the 46th president (~1:16:00).Amer’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/44940775Ibrahim’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/transform-ibrahims-life-rebuilding-the-futureoutro music: three cheers for our side by Orange Juice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

from old cronies to fresh parasocial bonds, our heroes navigate some of Trump’s baffling appointments to key healthcare positions in his upcoming 2nd administration. outro: terra by geordie greep This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

a lot of talk of post-election blues, but not here folks; much to discuss & much to do as the gang returns to discuss Kamala Harris’s disastrous campaign for President and where we go from here.https://palestineaction.org/outro: love me, i’m a liberal by Phil Ochs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

a BOYZ ONLY Fireside Chat on Hezb0llah & the assassination of Hassan Nasrallahmusic:alesis by Mk.geea whiter shade of pale by Shigeo Sekito This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

the gang reads a few articles and has some fun wit ithttps://www.jezebel.com/health-care-workers-say-conditions-for-pregnant-people-in-gaza-are-getting-worsehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/radical-far-left-kamala-harriss-policies-are-just-common-sense-to-most-americanshttps://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000434?form=fpfplease consider donating to help Amer (@amer_gaza1 on IG) and his family, who are facing dire conditions in Gaza: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-to-build-my-dream-your-donation-rebuilds-our-life?attribution_id=sl:092a0241-f2e0-4ada-9826-198dd2492693&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customercorrection (25:17) - meant to say ‘Communist Party’ rather than PFLP, which wasn’t founded until 1967.outro: that’s my floor by Magdalena Bay This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

#PACKALERT #PACKNOTICE #PACKSIGNALthe gang does the obligatory post-Trump-almost-assassination coverage. for all our enemies, remember that this is also a comedy podcast in addition to a political podcast so nothing we say counts and that’s on period This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

today Bae leads us as we get into the wellness industry in the context of Western/Zionist imperial dominance and how colonizer frameworks undergird seemingly unrelated facets of economics, culture, and technology. who is allowed to be well? should the ability to live a safe and meaningful life rely on trite notions of individual physical & psychological consciousness, or consumer choices on the market? if so, who has access to these markets? if not, shouldn’t our goal be to overcome the entire concept of wellness and reterritorialize it onto a more historical and social stratum?outro music: not like us by kendrick lamar This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

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kickstarting our ‘health and wellness’ miniseries and just in time for halloween, we discuss the deeply disturbing ‘project’ that is Bryan Johnson - a 46 year old multi-millionaire hellbent on staying young and horny forever. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

as the spiritual successor to our discussion from episode 15, we break down yet another L for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration by the Supreme Court.outro: whitehouse road by Tyler Childers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

today we review some articles. first one is from Medscape, who has seemingly lost the plot with several recent, absolutely bizarre offerings. we also discuss some ‘market activity’ involving health insurance companies and hospitals - don’t you love it when the most important thing is not patient care or health worker wellbeing but stock prices for healthcare capitalist vultures? we round things out with consent manufacture and State management of homeless people with mental illness. the peasants YEARN for reinstitutionalization, thank u Eric Adams!outro: wave by João Gilberto This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

well, the shootings start comin and they don’t stop comin…in the wake of the recent mass violence event in Texas, we talk mass shootings - primarily dissecting the active ideological choice State actors make of placing ‘mental health’ at the center of bourgeois discourse regarding gun violence, mass killings, and other phenotypic manifestations of a reactionary resurgence in the US.outro: new earth by Cass McCombs This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

we welcome esteemed friend of the pod and M&M’s official Canadian Correspondent Kristel Jax to the show to discuss - in broad terms - concepts, movements, and nascent legal structures encompassing the ‘right to die,’ Medical Assistance In Dying, and (Physician) Assisted Suicide in Canada and the United States. how are today’s moral values embedded in the ways in which we talk (or don’t) about death, let alone the idea of death itself? how do cultural production and the ‘Spectacle-ization’ of medicine shape modern mythologies about end-of-life care? how might economic coercion alter our potentials in life in the most general sense possible? well, it may result in Capital’s most monstrous decoding yet: the commoditization of death.legislation is on the table for millions upon millions of people in North America in the coming years, and we are still very early into the existing legal frameworks. it’s something we all might have an interest in paying more attention to in the future. special bonus on this episode: intermittent pug noises (if that’s your thing)Simons "All is Beauty" CommercialKRISTEL JAXDrone Therapy Podcast IG: dyingbutfine **correction: the Terri Schiavo case was about whether or not to discontinue tube feeding, not mechanical ventilation.outro: memory by Whitney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

shiver me fingers !!!! (it’s cold now and happy christmas)in between visits from Skinner and a WiFi cut-out plotted by our most despised enemies, Sigmund Fraud leads our discussion on Cerebral, an online medication/therapy service self-described as ‘expert help for your emotional health.’ we go into what it offers, what people who have worked at Cerebral thought of it, and where it fits into the broader, already-fractured, capitalist healthcare milieu.music:46’ do you remember - john vanderslice1:11’ mayla - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros1:29’ mookie’s last christmas - saosin This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH ‘SUMMER’NOW ‘THE RETURN OF M&M’ IS MY BEST FRIENDsince we last saw our heroes, Fidel started a locums job, Sigmund became the spiritual and material successor to Matthew Lesko, and Bae stayed ‘lowkey eating’ in ‘the cut’ (at Whataburger)we decided to ca$h in on the discourse surrounding ‘Biden Bucks’ aka the loan forgiveness relief that’s been percolating in the zeitgeist - and then focus on educational loans for physicians (+ briefly touch on nurses). we also zoom out and discuss how debt’s historical role is to act as a tool of social manipulation, and in its current iteration, it tends to shape modes of existence into what’s expedient for Capital.***apologies for the feedback at random points throughout the episode! i believe it is our enemiesSAAG's Solidarity Appeal for Flood Victims in Pakistanoutro: check it out by John Cougar Mellencamp This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com

by now, most of us have at least heard of RaDonda Vaught and the cover-up by Vanderbilt University Medical Center of the tragic death of Charlene Murphey. on March 25 2022, RaDonda was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult in the context of a medication error. we welcome back nurse homie and union thug Rach (aka “Just Some Nurse”) to discuss the timeline of events, relate some personal experiences, interpret the systemic conditions that could allow something like this to happen, and evaluate the implications this trial may have on healthcare workers and patients alike. join us as we barrel into the fresh new contradictions of 21st century Medicine - the American way.here’s a good timeline of eventson May 13, RaDonda Vaught was sentenced to 3 years of supervised probation - no jail time mashallah!!!Christian Gainey casemusic:intro: created by fidel cashtho1.14.00: shaking ass by Jerry Paperoutro: june by Destroyer(apologies for some of the shaky audio quality) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.marxismandmedicine.com