Hi, I want to point out first that this will be the last email for the year. I'll still be in the signal chat and everything, so join that if you haven't already, but I think it would be beneficial to take at least a few days to recollect ourselves.

I'm not going to share reflections from this chapter, but I will share a couple of quotes from "HOST". I'd invite you to think about them (in addition to any other lines from the book) before our video chat in about an hour (at 12p ET).

You can join here at 12pm ET.

With that, let's conclude with our reading of Health Communism.

HOST

... the sick form the central class that can bring about the fall of capital.

... the sick are retained as "a statistical class" and are therefore "deprived of the possibility of forming a solidary collectivity"...

It is not necessarily the case that we are all sick. But none of us is well.

Worker health exploitation, allowing the surplus to die, statistical genocide, social murder, "personal responsibility" frameworks—the realities of these, and the shifting policies and "reforms" that manage them, do not constitute an evolving "morality" to capitalism, some shifting moral universe of the social order.

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