Capitalism, the final epoch of class society, can be described in the simplest terms, as sickening. That is to be taken in the most literal sense, as in, capitalist society renders the masses of people forced to live in it literally ill. The disease that capitalism forces onto its victims afflicts the most personal, the most human component of one’s being. That is to say, capitalism afflicts one’s mind. To live and work under the capitalist system, is to be mentally ill. For the original Socialist Patients Collective (SPK), which existed in the German Federal Republic from the late 60’s to the early 70’s,  the logical extension of that fact formed the basis of the radical axiom at the center of their movement which was conveyed to the world with the concise slogan: “Every suicide is a murder!” This was a great charge against the system that forces the starving to endure the anxiety of finding their next meal. It was a powerful accusation against the system that forces the majority of people to give up a large amount of the precious time in their fleeting lives to enrich a minority of exploiters. It was a grand denunciation of the system that dehumanizes whole nations of people to serve the national chauvinist interests of the imperialists. Overall by exposing the deadly illness that capitalism forces on human society, the SPK produced a condemnation of this wretched capitalist system of the highest caliber; one which warrants a deep exploration of capitalism induced mental illness in general as well as in its most acute manifestation in the oppressed nations of the world, as such an analysis will illuminate the indisputable fact that the system that has sickened and murdered so much of humanity, has created the basis for its own destruction in the form of world revolution. In other words, capitalism, which has driven so many suffering people to suicide, is killing itself.

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