SPK - Turn illness into a weapon
Completely revised and enlarged online edition
Sections 1-36 now available here. To be continued.
Contents
Preface concerning translation, Huber (SPK/PF) WD, Dr.med.
SPK/PF(H)
Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK) / Patientenfront (PF)
List of dates
Crash-down of the all dominating medical doctors’ class’ programme
Transparency-Retranslation [Transparenz-Rueckuebertragung] of our translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Preface to: SPK – Aus der Krankheit eine Waffe machen (SPK - Turn Illness into a Weapon) into English (including the publisher’s annotations, biased and partisan, but absolutely essential and indispensable in the class-interest of the patients’ class, being in confrontation and steadily on a collision-course).
Dear Comrades! Jean-Paul Sartre (Facsimile)
Huber’s Letter to Contat concerning Sartre’s Preface
I Materialistic development of the contradictions in the concept of illness
II Theses and principles
2. Three starting-points of practising SPK
3. 10 principles of practising SPK
4. Towards a "people's university"
III Development of the SPK-history
6. The University's Psychiatric Policlinic being a service of ruling science
7. The Policlinic as a service, treating ill people
8. Organization by the patients themselves
9. The Socialist Patients' Collective
10. The eviction sentence and the Senate's order
12. The dominant illegality, the lack of rights, and the patients
IV About the method of the SPK
13. Agitation being the implication of "therapeutic", scientific and political work
14. Loneliness, details, "objectivity", opinions
15. Dyatic (personal) agitation and group agitation
16. Multi-focal expansionism (MFE) replaces all state and private institutions right from the start
17. Alien determination – scientific study groups
V Dialectics
20. Sublation (liberation) of the object role by collectivity
21. Multi-focal expansionism – "Focus"
VI Illness and capitalism
23. Identity of illness and capitalism
24. The proletariat under the determinacy of illness is the revolutionary proletariat
25. About the "healthy" socialists and about the reactionary dogmatism of certain "leftists"
26. Capitalism and its agents as manifestations of nature's violence
27. All about physicians, lawyers, university professors, the health system, the judiciary, science
28. The function of the physician as a trustee of capitalism and how to abolish this function
29. The rector of the University of Heidelberg as an advocat of capitalism
30. The institutions of capitalism
31. About the problem of violence – the escalation of violence
32. Example:"Mania" of persecution – the progressive and reactionary moments of an illness
33. Aggressivity – aggression and defence
34. Being identified with capitalism – for example: "success"
36. Instead of an agitation protocol
VII Documentary chapter
37. About the political economy in the identity of suicide = murder
38. About the difference between a patients' self-organization and democratic centralism
VIII Two comparisons
39. Comparison I
40. Comparison II
The bibliography of the writings of illness [Kraenkschriftenverzeichnis]
Comments on the Socialist Patients‘ Collective (SPK) and on the Patients‘ Front (PF)
Through illness, strength – The Patients‘ Front (Aus Krankheit stark Patientenfront)
Song of the Patients‘ Front / Patientenfront-Lied
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