This Theorist Believes That Capitalism Creates Mass Murderers by Causing People to 'Malfunction'

[Ichingcarpenter]

First his Wikipedia page.


Franco "Bifo" Berardi (born 2 November 1948 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Berardi has written over two dozen published books, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches.

Theories[edit]
Unlike orthodox Marxists, Franco's autonomist theories draw on psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis and communication theory to show how subjectivity and desire are bound up with the functioning of the capitalism system, rather than portraying events such as the financial crisis of 2008 merely as an example of the inherently contradictory logic of capitalist accumulation.[2]

Thus, he argues against privileging labour in critique and says that "the solution to the economic difficulty of the situation cannot be solved with economic means: the solution is not economic."[3] Human emotions and embodied communication becomes increasingly central to the production and consumption patterns that sustain capital flows in post-industrial society, and as such Berardi uses the concepts of "cognitariat" and "info labour" to analyze this psycho-social process.[4][5] Among Berardi's other concerns are cultural representations and expectations about the future — from proto-Fascist Futurism[6] to post-modern cyberpunk (1993). This represents a greater concern with ideas and cultural expectations than the determinist-materialist expression of a Marxism which is often confined to purely economic or systemic analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Berardi


Vice interview and introduction

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is an Italian Marxist academic and theorist who has written extensively on the topic. In the introduction to his study of mass murder, Heroes, he says, "I saw the agony of capitalism and dismantling of social civilisation from a very peculiar point of view: crime and suicide". For Berardi, the mass murderer is not an aberration or a monster, but a character directly produced by a system which coerces us all to be constantly productive and competitive.

VICE:.......... the interview


http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/berardi-interview



Not that I agree or not but thought it was intriguing and may have partial relevance and validity and as Aristotle said


''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.''

[Sherman A1]

1. Interesting theory

and perhaps correct in some cases. I doubt if there is just one answer, but rather as many as there are individuals and events. The access to the means of completing these acts likewise bears considerable responsibility.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Well I think his thought on neoliberalism and

false individualism has some truth to it .....

What is the core of neoliberal ideology? Firstly, that you are alone, that you are an individual competing with everybody else. Secondly, that the real distinction among human beings is between winners and losers, right? There's no more stable class identity, no more stable political identity – the real divide is between neoliberalism's winners and losers. And if you are a young person who has grown up in this capitalist environment, and you understand that actually you can never be a winner, what will you do?

. I think I will explore more with this guys writings and his book 'Heroes' is the one I'm told to start with.

Its a piece of the puzzle

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Well I discussed this with my daughter who's working in psychiatric ward

as part of her nursing degree. And the neoliberal capitalist isolationist, individualism of such society, she agrees, contributes to the isolation that the patients see with their own prognosis and cure., the loneliness they feel in their affliction contributes to others not understanding the empathy they need.

Mind you ......... these are not violent individuals who she works with except to themselves and their soul, being, id or what ever you want to call it.

It turned into a 30min discussion .... but we both agreed its many factors.....contribute diet, upbringing, and other social and physical factors.


Franco "Bifo" Berardi , ............... I will buy that book, it also helps me
with a book I'm trying to write.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research

Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/02/3727406/doctors-gun-violence-research/

[TBF]

5. It all goes together -

a dysfunctional society breeds dysfunction. This economic system pits people against each other in the quest to be a profit leader and be top of the heap. Money may not "trickle down" but the stress from all of that sure does. And now we are at the point where there are only a few at the top (like the Koch's, the Walmart family, even Zuckerberg and his fabulous foundation) that so many are struggling with just making ends meet (and sometimes not succeeding with that).

Something has to give. We are seeing the shootings, we are hearing about white blue collar folks dying, and our infrastructure is crumbling.

This country is a mess.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. We may be witnessing a real discussion

of not just our economic system but what makes us human and what it means to be human in this short life we have.

There is a battle of consciousness on this planet
and the those that destroying this planet for personal gain
are losing ........ but try to tell us they are winning hearts and minds ....... souls.

Just like Vietnam.

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''It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.''

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Is Capitalism causing the Gun Culture?

or would it exist in a fair society?

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. I had feeling that I could be someone and belong