SPK, turn illness into a weapon : for agitation by the Socialist Patients' Collective at the University of Heidelberg

This text, if it should result in being completely undigestible not able to beconsumed, then the consequence of this experience can only exist in negating it (negieren!), which means to abolish it into practice dialectically (ihninder Praxis dialektisch aufheben). This text itself is the abolition (Negation) representing the practising of the SPK. Startling book on the SPK, (Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv), including theses and principles, chronology of events, essays and an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. During the times more remote there existed astrological maps in which the governors of your brain took names like moon (luna) or cancer, the governors of your muscles Mars and so on. Those oldy names which nevertheless represent still existing pathways and exchange banks for other demons and devils, possessing and obsessing, interested in imperialism, but enemies of every kind of revolution concerning both, namely cosmic and social matters, for sure (kosmisch-soziale Revolution). In future there will exist more and more groups formed by special forces of illness, developing real in-dividuation (MFE). A special force of illness is mania which, if developed collectively, works like a musical species (Musikgattungswesen, nicht harmlos) killing all discipline, by transcendence. The same about a collective which develops its self-chosen addictions (Körpersüchte) exercised body by body, for addiction then is a deadly weapon against drugs, while turning all bodies to a well tempered species (Wärmekörper, wild), thus by immanence. Did you ever divide a melody, a lot of warmth, an illness or some other species? Of course not, for such individualities are either individuals or divisible, thus no individuals. Perhaps Plato and Bergson forgot to mention it in the completeness, now necessary to enable the doing it, and Pluto, grouping the imponderable into weight, the weight into imponderability, therefore now is mad at them and resorting to earthquakes. Make use of your own experiences about illnesses and put fantasy into action. Those things are meant if there is the question about how to be up to date. SPK - TURN ILLNESS INTO A WEAPON is the first glance to a future to be done free of (Endlösungs-) names, governors, health factories and so on. We call it Utopathie. Contents 4 Preface Concerning Translation 8 SPK/PF Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK) Patientenfront (PF) 14 Dear Comrades! by Jean-Paul Sartre 26 I: MATERIALISTIC EXPLICATION OF THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BEGRIFF (CONCEPT) OF ILLNESS 34 II: THESES AND PRINCIPLES 42 1.) 11 x ILLNESS 42 2.) THREE STARTING-POINTS OF PRACTISING SPK 43 3.) 10 PRINCIPLES IN PRACTISING SPK 45 4.) TOWARDS A "PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY" (ZUM BEGRIFF VOLKSUNIVERSITAT) 47 5.) PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY SPK (DAS SPK ALS VOLKSUNIVERSITAT) 48 III: DEVELOPMENT OF SPK-HISTORY 51 6.) THE UNIVERSITY'S PSYCHIATRIC POLICLINIC BEING A SERVICE OF RULING SCIENCE 51 7.) THE POLICLINIC AS A SERVICE, TREATING ILL PEOPLE 52 8.) ORGANIZATION BY THE PATIENTS THEMSELVES (DIE SELBSTORGANISIERUNG DER PATIENTEN) 55 9.) THE SOCIALIST PATIENTS' COLLECTIVE 58 10.) THE EVICTION SENTENCE (RAUMUNGSURTEIL) AND THE SENATE'S ORDER (SENATSBESCHLUSS) 62 11.) THE EVICTION 63 12.) THE RULING OUTLAW CONDITION (DIE HERRSCHENDE RECHTLOSIGKEIT) AND THE PATIENTS 66 IV: ABOUT THE METHOD OF SPK 77 13.) AGITATION BEING THE IMPLICATION OF "THERAPEUTIC", SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL WORK 77 14.) LONELINESS, DETAILS, "OBJECTIVITY", OPINIONS 78 15.) DYATIC (PERSONAL) AGITATION AND GROUP AGITATION (EINZELAGITATION UND GRUPPENAGITATION) 80 16.) FUNCTIONS IN SPK, COMMONLY CALLED "CASE WORK" 85 17.) ALIEN DETERMINATION (FREMDBESTIMMUNG) - SCIENTIFIC STUDY WORK GROUPS (WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ARBEITSKREISE) 87 18.) AGITATION AND ACTION 89 V: DIALECTICS 92 19.) OBJECT-SUBJECT 92 20.) AUFHEBUNG (CANCELLATION, LIBERATION, RESOLVING) OF THE OBJECT ROLE BY COLLECTIVITY (IM KOLLEKTIV) 96 21.) MULTI-FOCAL EXPANSIONISM - "FOCUS" 99 22.) DIALECTICS OF SEXUALITY 101 VI: ILLNESS AND CAPITALISM 108 23.) IDENTITY OF ILLNESS AND CAPITALISM 108 24.) THE PROLETARIAT WHICH IS A REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT IN THE DEFINITION OF ILLNESS (UNTER DER BESTIMMUNG KRANKHEIT) 110 25.) ABOUT THE "HEALTHY" SOCIALISTS AND ABOUT THE REACTIONARY DOGMATISM OF CERTAIN "LEFTIES" 114 26.) THE CAPITALISM AND ITS AGENTS BELONG TO NATURE'S VIOLENCE (DAS KAPITAL UND SEINE SACHWALTER ALS NATURGEWALT) 120 27.) ALL ABOUT PHYSICIANS, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, HEALTH SYSTEM , JUDICIARY, SCIENCE 122 28.) PHYSICIAN'S WAY OF FUNCTION ADVOCATING CAPITALISM AND HOW TO ABOLISH IT 124 29.) THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG AS AN ADVOCAT OF CAPITALISM 126 30.) THE INSTITUTIONS OF CAPITALISM 127 31.) ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE - ESCALATING OF VIOLENCE 130 32.) EXAMPLE PERSECUTION "MANIA" - PROGRESSIVE AND REACTIONARY MOMENTS OF AN ILLNESS 133 33.) AGGRESSIVITY - AGGRESSION AND DEFENCE 137 34.) BEING IDENTIFIED WITH CAPITALISM, FOR EXAMPLE "SUCCESS " (IDENTITAT MIT DEM KAPITAL AM BEISPIEL "ERFOLG") 139 35.) POLITICAL IDENTITY 143 36.) INSTEAD OF AN AGITATION RECORD 144 VII: DOCUMENTARY CHAPTER 159 37.) ABOUT THE POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE IDENTITY OF SUICIDE = MURDER (ZUR POLITISCHEN OKONOMIE DER IDENTITAT SELBSTMORD = MORD) 159 38.) ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PATIENTS' SELF-ORGANIZATION AND DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM 168 VIII: TWO CORRESPONDENCES / TWO COMPARISONS 182 39.) CORRESPONDENCES I 182 40.) CORRESPONDENCES II 190 NOTES 208 The Bibliography of the WRITINGS OF ILLNESS (Krankschriftenverzeichnis) 225 Comments on the SOCIALIST PATIENTS' COLLECTIVE (SPK) and on the PATIENTS' FRONT (PF) 230 THROUGH ILLNESS, STRENGTH - THE PATIENTS' FRONT (AUS KRANKHEIT STARK PATIENTENFRONT) 233 Patientenfront tune 241 SPK/PF Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK) Patientenfront (PF) Dear Comrades! by Jean-Paul Sartre I: MATERIALISTIC EXPLICATION OF THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BEGRIFF (CONCEPT) OF ILLNESS II: THESES AND PRINCIPLES 1.) 11 X Illness 2.) Three Starting-Points of Practising SPK 3.) 10 Principles in Practising SPK 4.) Towards a "People's University" (Zum Begriff Volksuniversitat) 5.) People's University SPK (Das SPK als Volksuniversitat) III: DEVELOPMENT OF SPK-HISTORY 6.) The University's Psychiatric Policlinic Being a Service of Ruling Science 7.) The Policlinic as a Service, Treating Ill People 8.) Organization by the Patients Themselves (Die Selbstorganisierung der Patienten) 9.) The Socialist Patients' Collective 10.) The Eviction Sentence (Raumungsurteil) and the Senate's Order (Senatsbeschluss) 11.) The Eviction 12.) The Ruling Outlaw Condition (Die Herrschende Rechtlosigkeit) and the Patients IV: ABOUT THE METHOD OF SPK 13.) Agitation Being the Implication of "Therapeutic", Scientific and Political Work 14.) Loneliness, Details, "Objectivity", Opinions 15.) Dyatic (Personal) Agitation and Group Agitation (Einzelagitation und Gruppenagitation) 16.) Functions in SPK, Commonly Called "Case Work" 17.) Alien Determination (Fremdbestimmung) - Scientific Study Work Groups (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitskreise) 18.) Agitation and Action V: DIALECTICS 19.) Object-Subject 20.) Aufhebung (Cancellation, Liberation, Resolving) of the Object Role by Collectivity (Im Kollektiv) 21.) Multi-Focal Expansionism - "Focus" 22.) Dialectics of Sexuality VI: ILLNESS AND CAPITALISM 23.) Identity of Illness and Capitalism 24.) The Proletariat Which Is a Revolutionary Proletariat in the Definition of Illness (Unter Der Bestimmung Krankheit) 25.) About the "Healthy" Socialists and About the Reactionary Dogmatism of Certain "Lefties" 26.) The Capitalism and Its Agents Belong to Nature's Violence (Das Kapital und Seine Sachwalter als Naturgewalt) 27.) All About Physicians, Lawyers, University Professors, Health System , Judiciary, Science 28.) Physician's Way of Function Advocating Capitalism and How to Abolish It 29.) The President of the University of Heidelberg as an Advocate of Capitalism 30.) The Institutions of Capitalism 31.) About the Problem of Violence - Escalating of Violence 32.) Example Persecution "Mania" - Progressive and Reactionary Moments of an Illness 33.) Aggressivity - Aggression and Defence 34.) Being Identified With Capitalism, for Example "Success " (Identitat mit dem Kapital am Beispiel "Erfolg") 35.) Political Identity 36.) Instead of an Agitation Record VII: DOCUMENTARY CHAPTER 37.) About the Political Economy in the Identity of Suicide = Murder (Zur Politischen Okonomie der Identitat Selbstmord = Mord) 38.) About the Difference Between a Patients' Self-Organization and Democratic Centralism VIII: TWO CORRESPONDENCES / TWO COMPARISONS 39.) Correspondences I 40.) Correspondences II The Bibliography of the WRITINGS OF ILLNESS (Krankschriftenverzeichnis) Comments on the SOCIALIST PATIENTS' COLLECTIVE (SPK) and on the PATIENTS' FRONT (PF) THROUGH ILLNESS, STRENGTH - THE PATIENTS' FRONT (AUS KRANKHEIT STARK PATIENTENFRONT)