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China’s barefoot doctors in the 1950s & 60s have taught us valuable lessons about medical care freed from the profit system

The student rose from her seat with the newspaper in her hand and said, “This is Red Flag newspaper from the International Communist Workers’ Party and on the first page there’s an article about Ebola. I can give you guys one if you want.” About a dozen students took it.
This was after a presentation where the topic was Ebola as well as other epidemics that spread during the conquest of the Americas by the Europeans. The presentation included the history of the epidemics and how they are transmitted and how they had devastating effects on the indigenous people.
The speaker made the point that at the beginning of the conquest of the Americas, capitalism was born. This birth entailed the enslavement of the America’s indigenous people and the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans...and numerous genocides and robberies of  resources. The spirit that pushed the birth of capitalism also pushed the spirit of conquest...conquest in search of riches and domination.
Similarities and differences of both the west Africa outbreak and the diseases of the conquest were noted.  In Africa, the conditions were created and the victims are mainly black;  however, in the conquest, the diseases were brought, and those infected were mainly indigenous. In both cases the question of racism exists: there are oppressors and oppressed. Capitalism, as an economic and political system, has been developing since the encounter among the Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous.
The capitalist healthcare system that we have today is really unfair because if you don’t have the funds for treatment, the treatment you get isn’t good or you get no treatment at all. In a communist healthcare system treatment would be provided to anyone who needs it. If we continue having this capitalist healthcare system more and more people will die because not everyone has the money. It’s like saying “Only the rich will live and the working class will die.” How many more people need to die before people realize the capitalist healthcare system does not work? Capitalism as a whole isn’t working.
If we were to destroy all borders and all capitalist governments, we’d be able to provide a healthcare system that is much more reasonable and reliable for all, not just for the rich.

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