Week 6

Key Questions

• What is disability? How can it be viewed within a political economic framework?

• What is the relationship between disability and capitalism? How is disability a constitutive component of class?

• Why must disability justice be a component of anti-capitalist struggle?

Required Materials:

• Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra, Capitalism and Disability, “Capitalism and the Disability Rights Movement”

• Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability, "Marxism and Disability"

• Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability, "The New Reserve Army of Labor?"

Supplementary Materials:

• Maddie Rose and Zoe Belinsky, "Different Bodies, Same Expectations: How Capitalism Fails the Disabled"

• Jimmy Wu, "Capitalism is Dangerous for Your Mental Health"