Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the SPK?

This is the second in a two-part interview with Beatrice Adler-Bolton. Beatrice is a writer, artist & co-host of Death Panel, a podcast about the political economy of health. She is a co-author, (along with Artie Vierkant) of the recently published Health Communism from Verso Books. In their book, Health Communism, Beatrice and her co-author Artie provide a horizon for the left to orient themselves towards. That horizon is the demand for all care for all people. Building on the work they do over on Death Panel, the podcast they host with Phil Rocco, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abby Cartus, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants a serious analysis of how capitalism shapes what we think of as health. In part 2, we talk about the Socialist Patients Collective (or SPK for short), to whom Health Communism is dedicated. SPK were a group of patients that came together in post war Germany to produce one of the most valuable critiques of capitalism and health in the 20th century. They were subsequentl