Clearly your analysis around Disability and capitalism is a political statement. One that I very much adhere to. Indeed the majority of 'grassroots' disability organisations forget how the 'social model' came about and is such generally reduced to a barrier model. The problem that I am having, and I am sure it is common one; is that those political organisations, marxist, socialist, anarchist and corresponding movements that endeavour to challenge the capitalistic system and super structure still today more often than not refuse to see Disability as a political issue and in my humble thinking at the very core of capitalist oppression.
I have been trying to put this across in an article in a magazine that will remain unnamed. I am neither a writer or an academic but I find my non-disabled and sometimes disabled (although not self identifying for the usual lack of identification with the movement) 'comrades' are disablist at worse and paternalistic at best. Personally, I find it very frustrating and upsetting. Has there been any research/articles about this interaction between the Disability movement and those parties/movements?
Thanks
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