title. i took a few years off of all social media, including lemmygrad, but i could have sworn there was such a community back when i frequented lemmygrad before the break. i found one major post on the topic from 3 years ago and several comments that lead to errors, which i assume is because the posts they were under were deleted or removed. what exactly is the history there? if the community was banned or removed what was the reasoning?
furthermore, just out of curiosity, what are people’s opinions on psychiatry, psychology, and the anti-psychiatry movement? i’ve been doing a lot of thinking and some research on all three as it relates to the development of capitalism and socialism, as well as my own personal experience. to me it seems to be another case in which a marxist framework is necessary to synthesize psychiatry/psychology and anti-psychiatry to come to a fundamentally closer approximation to the truth. topics such as where the line should be drawn between behavioral/biological conditions and the usage/role of psychiatric medication seem to be particularly hot button issues.
i think the question that anti-psychiatry (at least, the part of it that seems useful) is asking isn’t whether or not your depression would magically go away under socialism, but rather if you would have developed depression in the first place had you always lived under a socialist mode of production, or perhaps communism. and, i think that’s a much more challenging question to answer. what do you think?
I can’t say. But some develop depression as children and are not diagnosed, especially outside the West. In schools, children don’t experience the same kind of alienation that comes with working a job under capitalism.
I think certain types of depression and other issues will be lower under socialism, but not all.
that’s definitely true, but it’s also true that the abolition of all exploitative class relationships necessitates the abolition of patriarchy, a long-standing system that has a deep and self-evident effect on the raising of children given the centrality of the patriarchal family unit.
i’ll also say that, while children (who are not forced into labor, many are) are not exploited for their labor in school, that doesn’t necessarily mean that school is not alienating to them under capitalism. schools are modeled off of prisons, and their primary function is as a daycare for children rather than to optimally raise and teach children. just think: would schools be so underfunded and understaffed in a better world, and what effect would that have on the children in them?
finally, i think there’s a good argument for saying that while children may not directly feel the effects of alienation due to exploited labor, they do so indirectly. not only in the context of schools, but in the context of the patriarchal family unit: in the same way that men use the patriarchal family as a means to exploit women in service of venting their frustration at being exploited at work, i feel that this must have a negative effect on children from a very early age as well. it is not a situation conducive to healthy and loving familial relationships imo