here myself and @dashflint.bsky.social try to highlight the very real enactment of social m*rder + e*genics happening right now with 3 concrete e.g. in the UK: welfare cuts, c*vid, and (just in time for the very next attempt being voted on next Fri) the assisted su*cide / e*thanasia bill

Brief note: this is a pamphlet that critiques the (very) concept of 'ableism'

Williams-Findlay concludes that only an analysis of disability rooted in the concrete social, economic and political institutions which enforce disabled people’s exclusion and marginalisation can be the basis for an emancipatory strategy.

people became dominated and excluded, while ableism merely describes this oppression as a trans-historical, almost ‘natural ‘, fact of living in a world filled with non-disabled people.

relationship between oppressor and oppressed. Williams-Findlay suggests that each of these uses lead to dead ends: quickly becoming incoherent or circular when tested against the historical record or current political realities. The task of disability analysis is to question why and how impaired

In the Pamphlet’s lead piece, Bob Williams-Findlay argues that ableism is a slippery concept which cannot decide if it is making claims about the beliefs which motivate disabled people’s oppressors, a philosophical claim about society’s response to difference, or a political argument about the

Our first publication concerns how Marxists should approach the concept of ‘ableism’ as a description and explanation of disability oppression; a question which has caused lively debate in the Network since last Spring.

and expanded versions of debates and disagreements within the Network on questions of theory and political strategy. The Pamphlets are an open forum for members’ writings, and are intended to be a tool for all those fighting against capitalism and the social disability it causes.

We are delighted to publish our first Research Pamphlet. This ad hoc, open access series will present written interventions into debates between Marxism and Disability Studies, reflections on ongoing and historical struggles for disability liberation,