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Rebel Minds: Class War, Mass Suffering, and the Urgent Need for Socialism (2019)

by Susan Rosenthal

Life should not be so difficult.

It is possible, right now, to create a healthful, cooperative, and sustainable world. Because that would not be profitable, the capitalist class force us to live in their sickening and unsustainable world.

When our minds and bodies protest, they label us as ‘deviant’ or ‘sick.’ We are neither. We are suffering. We are rebels.

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Rebel Minds makes a superb case for why failing to imagine the end of capitalism will guarantee the end of the world.

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It’s a mad, mad world

Part I. The cause of mass suffering

1. A world of needless pain
2. Class war

Part II. Concealing the cause of mass suffering

3. The managerial class
4. Is ‘mental illness’ real?
5. How important is biology?
6. Eugenics then and now

Part III. Containing rebellion

7. The drive to standardize
8. Rebel minds:
The deliberately silenced
The preferably unheard
9. The State of institutions

Part IV. The battle for freedom

10. Inspiring victory, long decline
11. We are in deep shit
12. We need real socialism

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Book Review

A review of Rebel Minds: Class war, mass suffering, and the urgent need for socialism.

by Adrian Cooley

April 30, 2020

“This book is valuable for the way it reveals a lot of the mystery surrounding mental and physical health and their relationship with capitalism from a Marxist perspective… I think this book would appeal not only to those who have only recently become politically active, but also seasoned socialists seeking new ways of presenting the impact of capitalism on human health.”

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Heather O’Halloran

January 17, 2020

I have been a longtime advocate of social and economic justice, caring better for the environment, supporting those disadvantaged in our world, eliminating racism and discrimination, and working for world peace. My political actions have been modest – I am a member of a centre-left party in Canada and occasionally campaign; I sign petitions and send money to various organizations working on all these issues in Canada and abroad. But this book has convinced me of a serious problem with all the groups I support. They do not identify the elephant in the room that makes it impossible to solve any of these problems – capitalism.

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Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible

A review of Rebel Minds: Class war, mass suffering, and the urgent need for socialism.

by Megan Wildhood

November 8, 2019

Life should not be this difficult. One of my prominent thoughts lately. A sentiment I’ve heard expressed in many ways by more and more of my millennial peers too busy trying to make ends meet in modern America for meaningful relationships (think about that for a minute: we are social creatures. We need each other on so many levels for survival. And yet, so many of us are working so much just to survive that we have no time for the main component of survival: each other).

Life should not be this difficult is also the first sentence on the back of the bookmark that came with my review copy of Susan Rosenthal’s Rebel Minds. Rosenthal is a retired Canadian physician who doesn’t know how deeply her work validated and saw me. And, if you’ve been struggling, wondering what’s wrong with you that you can’t make the system work for you the way you’re being told “anyone” can, if you’re heavy with doubt that you have anything useful to give the world, if your skills and talents are worth more than minimum wage at a dead-end job, then she sees you, too. And if you’ve been having trouble diagnosing “the problem” — having tried everything that seems to be on offer in the marketplace: career counseling, therapy, coaching, deep breathing, rapacious self-care — then Rebel Minds will be a balm to your brain.

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A review of Rebel Minds: Class War, Mass Suffering and the Urgent Need for Socialism.

by Glen Manery

I have been working in the chronically underfunded public school system in a large Canadian city for over 20 years, and I’m currently a school counsellor.

Over the years I have noticed that social, emotional, and developmental concerns and adverse life experiences are increasingly being called ‘mental health,’ ‘mental illness,’ ‘mental health concerns,’ ‘mental health issues,’ and so on. Students are increasingly being referred for psychiatric diagnoses and ‘treatment,’ usually with drugs. Parents are often pressured by schools to pursue these referrals and are perceived as ‘in denial’ or irresponsible if they reject a psychiatric diagnosis and drugs for their child.

Social and ‘mental health’ support services, also chronically underfunded, are swamped and unable to keep up. While the elite horde their ever-increasing wealth in secret offshore accounts, more and more of us attribute our suffering to being ‘sick in the brain.’ How did all of this come to be?

Many authors have addressed this question and explored possible remedies. However, as Rosenthal has stated, “few analyze psychiatry in relation to capitalism, and even fewer attempt this with a marxist analysis.”

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