Revolutionary medicine

Authors

  • Seiji Yamada University of HawaiiJohn A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-4488
  • Arcelita Imasa University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, USA
  • Gregory Gabriel Maskarinec University of HawaiiJohn A. Burns School of Medicine, Departments of Native Hawaiian Health & Family Medicine and Community Health, USA

Keywords:

Social Medicine, Political Systems, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Democracy

Abstract

This essay might be construed as something of a missive in the vein of Kropotkin’s “An Appeal to the Young,” from old radicals who accomplished little, to young radicals who must accomplish much. We intend our remarks as preliminary, for it will be the young who will re-make the world, and in the process they will learn much to teach their descendants. This essay draws on both Marxist and anarchist currents in its formulation of revolutionary medicine for the current situation. Marx is necessary for his analysis of capitalism, his historical materialism, for his labor theory of value, for his formulation of history as the history of class struggle, for his emphasis on praxis. Anarchism is necessary for its hatred of capitalism, emphasis on freedom, its defiance of authority, and its radical democracy.

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2021-02-01

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2020)

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