Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital's drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of re-politicizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

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Garden afterlife: canon

"It is pivotal that the left does not content itself with fighting the new fascist parties and gets sidetracked into defensive struggles against the far right. Instead, the left has to articulate a radical anti-capitalist project that unites the subaltern in a rejection of capitalism and its forms of domination, even if this means abandoning the established national democracies and its party politics."

https://roarmag.org/essays/fighting-fascism-in-the-era-of-late-capitalism/

Every year, local communities on both sides of the Apurimac River Canyon rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge
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Can you think of any solarpunk practices in the tradition of your culture(s) of origin?

(Eg. planting trees during special events, community events, ...)