Proletariat Mental Health Project
The bourgeois system is all pervasive and dominates
simultaneously not only the outer world of material production, but also the
inner world of the mind that reflects this world. The outer structures of society condition,
manipulate, and perpetuate the thought patterns and emotions of the inner mind
whose job it is to make sense of the data it is receiving through the bodily
senses. This data invariably shifts in
tone with the particular class an individual happens to occupy in life, due entirely
to an accident of birth. For the upper
class – that aristocratic vestige of fading feudalism that has thrown in its
lot with the bourgeois – life is by and large an enjoyable game in which they
are continuously winning, a game designed to cater for their every whim. They understand that there are two classes
below them, and sit easy in their opulence.
The middle class – or ‘bourgeoisie’ – originates not from the aristocracy,
but rather from those serfs in feudal times who managed, in one way or another,
to better themselves through aping what they considered to be their social
betters. During the transition from
feudalism to a modern society premised upon industrial development, the
bourgeoisie, with a revolution here, and an uprising there, seized power from
the very same aristocracy they so admired, and instigated a tyrannical domination
of the social class below. The
bourgeoisie allowed the aristocracy to continue to exist – albeit stripped of
direct political power – providing it continued to support the bourgeoisie in
all its particular class interests. King
Charles I of England decided not to do just this, and his neck, (quite
literally) ended-up on a very public chopping block!
Through owning the means of production, and by reinforcing this ownership through a ruthless division of labour, the bourgeoisie enslave the working class – or proletariat – by ensuring that they own nothing but their labour which is purchased at a price always below its value. This ensures a continues deprivation of mind and body by withholding essential services that are accessed through the accumulation of wealth (as the worker can never accumulate enough money), and by maintaining a social network of rigid class support that sees the bourgeoisie exclusively pursue and support their own class interests, keeping all others outside of this exclusive club of historically acquired affluence. This means that the working class is nothing but a labour providing device that suffers from the perceived inconvenience of being alive within a system that otherwise has no interest in its wants and needs. For the bourgeoisie, the proletariat is nothing but the provider of organic work machines that require a basic level of fuel and maintenance to survive for a long enough time to make it worthwhile to exploit them. In other words, a human being designed by evolution to survive in many different and varied environments, is reduced to that of a one-dimensional automaton, with no expectation to exhibit the mental and physical qualities associated with an average human being.
This situation means that the proletariat have a psychology of inadequacy enforced upon them as a class, which emerges out of the individual as negative mind-sets and associated abhorrent behaviours. The working class act out in their private lives, the very bourgeois oppression they are forced to live under every second of their lives. This angst ridden existence is premised upon ‘alienation’, whereby the proletariat are historically conditioned to exist within a perpetual state of alienation. They are alienated from the natural world that has produced their minds and bodies (through the evolutionary process), they are alienated from one another (so that they inhabit a ‘false consciousness’ and cannot unite through the necessity of class interest, and they are alienated from the produce of their work (as they do not own the means of production, nor the article produced). Whereas the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie are predispositioned as privileged classes, to fully explore the world and develop their physical and mental abilities in the process, the proletariat have to exist in a state of arrested development from which they cannot escape, or are allowed to escape from.
Bourgeois mental health is all about pandering to the little quirks, deviations, and subtle distractions that occur in the human mind during everyday life, whilst occupying an affluent social and cultural space. This has become an industry in its own right; an industry that the working class cannot access due to its cost, unfamiliar culture, and exclusive language of communication. Like everything else ‘bourgeois’, the counselling profession that caters to their needs is thoroughly exclusive and has no intention or interest of ensuring the mental health of the majority of people within society – i.e. the ‘proletariat’. It is exactly this working class majority that desperately requires free access to psychological counselling and this need is the basis for this BMA (UK) Mental Health Project. Those interested in using this service are required to email a qualified mental health expert who is sympathetic to their need from a Leftwing perspective. The type of psychological theories utilised are a skilled combination of:
1) Buddhist Psychology
2) Marxist Psychology
3) Jungian Analytical Psychology
4) Freudian Psychology
This purely voluntary service is confidential and free and is motivated by the need to address the Proletariat Mental Health inequalities within modern, industrialised societies. For an email consultation please contact:
BMA (UK) Mental Health Project: [email protected]
Through owning the means of production, and by reinforcing this ownership through a ruthless division of labour, the bourgeoisie enslave the working class – or proletariat – by ensuring that they own nothing but their labour which is purchased at a price always below its value. This ensures a continues deprivation of mind and body by withholding essential services that are accessed through the accumulation of wealth (as the worker can never accumulate enough money), and by maintaining a social network of rigid class support that sees the bourgeoisie exclusively pursue and support their own class interests, keeping all others outside of this exclusive club of historically acquired affluence. This means that the working class is nothing but a labour providing device that suffers from the perceived inconvenience of being alive within a system that otherwise has no interest in its wants and needs. For the bourgeoisie, the proletariat is nothing but the provider of organic work machines that require a basic level of fuel and maintenance to survive for a long enough time to make it worthwhile to exploit them. In other words, a human being designed by evolution to survive in many different and varied environments, is reduced to that of a one-dimensional automaton, with no expectation to exhibit the mental and physical qualities associated with an average human being.
This situation means that the proletariat have a psychology of inadequacy enforced upon them as a class, which emerges out of the individual as negative mind-sets and associated abhorrent behaviours. The working class act out in their private lives, the very bourgeois oppression they are forced to live under every second of their lives. This angst ridden existence is premised upon ‘alienation’, whereby the proletariat are historically conditioned to exist within a perpetual state of alienation. They are alienated from the natural world that has produced their minds and bodies (through the evolutionary process), they are alienated from one another (so that they inhabit a ‘false consciousness’ and cannot unite through the necessity of class interest, and they are alienated from the produce of their work (as they do not own the means of production, nor the article produced). Whereas the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie are predispositioned as privileged classes, to fully explore the world and develop their physical and mental abilities in the process, the proletariat have to exist in a state of arrested development from which they cannot escape, or are allowed to escape from.
Bourgeois mental health is all about pandering to the little quirks, deviations, and subtle distractions that occur in the human mind during everyday life, whilst occupying an affluent social and cultural space. This has become an industry in its own right; an industry that the working class cannot access due to its cost, unfamiliar culture, and exclusive language of communication. Like everything else ‘bourgeois’, the counselling profession that caters to their needs is thoroughly exclusive and has no intention or interest of ensuring the mental health of the majority of people within society – i.e. the ‘proletariat’. It is exactly this working class majority that desperately requires free access to psychological counselling and this need is the basis for this BMA (UK) Mental Health Project. Those interested in using this service are required to email a qualified mental health expert who is sympathetic to their need from a Leftwing perspective. The type of psychological theories utilised are a skilled combination of:
1) Buddhist Psychology
2) Marxist Psychology
3) Jungian Analytical Psychology
4) Freudian Psychology
This purely voluntary service is confidential and free and is motivated by the need to address the Proletariat Mental Health inequalities within modern, industrialised societies. For an email consultation please contact:
BMA (UK) Mental Health Project: [email protected]