We all know that
capitalism has no morality, but capitalism is nothing but for the
people who run the system, so it follows that those individuals have
no morality. We read day in and day out about how this corporate body
and that corporate body put profit before human life and limb, all in
the interest of fluffing up a group of shareholders' bank accounts. It's how the system works,
profit is the GOD and people are sacrificed on its high altar.
However, even a hard nosed anti-capitalist like myself is sometimes stunned by
the depth of depravity that the system, by that I mean the people who
work he system, will sink to. It seems that thousands of women,
mainly poor women, in the state of Chhattisgarh in India, have had
their wombs removed so that the hospital could claim an insurance cheque form
the government. The stories that are coming out are that women went
in for minor complaints were told that they would contract cancer if
they didn't have their womb removed. Some of those women, being poor
were intimidated by the medical staff and though they had gone in for
a back complaint or some other minor ailment, had their wombs removed. It doesn't seem to be the
odd rogue doctor, but seems to be across the state. According to some
estimates, there have been 50,000 hysterectomies performed across the
state in the last 30 months. In each of these cases the
clinic/hospital can claim from the government, 30,000 Rupees,
approximately £348 per operation. This is no back street con trick,
this is done by those Oh so respectable professionals in their shiny
suits, those pillars of society who drive home to their des-res in
the leafy suburbs. Human bodies are just another commodity from which
to extract profit, after all that's what the system is all about.
