[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic

Mon May 28 14:54:55 UTC 2018

Love Barbara. 
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------ Original message------From: Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discussDate: Mon, May 28, 2018 9:51 AMTo: Estabrook, Carl G;Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net;Subject:Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic
Yeah, even a dead clock is right twice a day. Fab.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu] 
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 9:50 AM
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No one can be wrong all the time. —CGE

> On May 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss  wrote:
> 
> People who write for TNR are Likudnik Fellow Travellers. Fab.
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> Francis A. Boyle
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> Champaign IL 61820 USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 9:45 AM
> To: Boyle, Francis A 
> Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's 
> Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic
> 
> But Barbara Ehrenreich is well worth reading (and debated) even if the New Republic is usually not (I agree). 
> 
> Even the irascible Louis Proyect sees that. —CGE
> 
> 
>> On May 28, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss  wrote:
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>> Jeeze Carl. I dropped my subscription to and stopped reading TNR when Marty Peretz’s wife bought it out  for him to play with when he was going nowhere at Harvard and he then turned it into the American  House Organ for Likhud. It has had absolutely ZERO credibility since then. Fab.
>> 
>> Francis A. Boyle
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>> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>> Champaign IL 61820 USA
>> 217-333-7954 (phone)
>> 217-244-1478 (fax)
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>> From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net]
>> On Behalf Of Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss
>> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 9:18 AM
>> To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical 
>> Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>> Subject: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness 
>> Culture | The New Republic
>> Date: May 28, 2018 at 7:04:22 AM CDT
>> To: "C. G. Estabrook" 
>> Reply-To: Louis Proyect , "Activists and scholars in 
>> Marxist tradition" 
>> 
>> 
>> Ehrenreich contemplates with some satisfaction not just the approach of her own death but also the passing of her generation. As the boomers have aged, denial of death, she argues, has moved to the center of American culture, and a vast industrial ecosystem has bloomed to capitalize on it. Across twelve chapters, Ehrenreich surveys the health care system, the culture of old age, the world of “mindfulness,” and the interior workings of the body itself, and finds a fixation on controlling the body, encouraged by cynical and self-interested professionals in the name of “wellness.” Without opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Ehrenreich observes that the care of the self has become a coercive and exploitative obligation: a string of endless medical tests, drugs, wellness practices, and exercise fads that threaten to become the point of life rather than its sustenance. Someone, obviously, is profiting from all this.
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>> https://newrepublic.com/article/148296/barbara-ehrenreich-radical-crt
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>> que-wellness-culture
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