>>2919867Most of your post is agreeing with me, but I appreciate the idea of problematizing the concept of "disability". It should be noted that disabilities can affect a person's success in non-economic areas as well, such as socializing (though you could say the means of socializing is also mediated through capitalism, in ways like what third spaces are available and how much of a financial cost it can be to access them, infrastructure for physical mobility, moral judgments about ability to be employed and be a "good worker", etc). Also, being a capitalist is caused by agency (as well as circumstance), so that ostensibly stops it from being psychiatrized, even if a psychiatric practitioner or institution was willing to do such a thing.
It can't be denied that disabilities at least stop you from being "able" to participate in capitalism. Also, for example autistic workers might need accommodation for their sensory sensitivities, their restricted behaviour, difficulty at informal socializing, stuff like that. Their health and mental wellbeing could deteriorate slowly from these things, and cause them to be fired cutting them off from surviving on wages.
I currently subscribe to a mix of the social and medical models of disability. It's hard to not see both as intricately connected to each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disabilityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_model_of_disability
>If they are not working jobs, they are definitionally not proletarian. What do you call the masses of people who don't work a job but also don't have access to bourgeois financial supports? Lumpenproletariat? Interesting question of classifying these unemployed disabled people relative to class society, I guess.
>While absolutely there are people who fit the category "disabled" in the world proletariat, people who exist in contexts where the wages of those around them are high enough to even marginally support another person are not living the same experience as a "disabled" proletarian.Does empirical evidence support this? If it was tr
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