So now, it seems non-conformity is a form of mental illness

[kandrathe]

The irony in the OP article is that the best source, the one I linked to above, points out that the very thing FIT is alleging occurs with the BPPP DSM IV ODD diagnosis (hmmm, acronym bingo FTW), was documented in the places that are more communist (yeah, yeah, we know no real communism actually exists outside FITs imagination). Where the State has ultimate power, they abuse it... also with psychiatry, against their political opponents. If we're saying, "we want the State to have less power", then I'm in agreement.

I would also point out that the "capitalist" K-12 education system is predominantly not. It is an agency of the State, and in fact, suffers the common problems that plague State (democratic, socialist or communist, you pick) run institutions. Every day we blithely pack up our children to go get collected by the machinery of State education, who then determines what they should learn for that day, and then returns them back to us in the evening. If anything goes wrong with the child, it's the parents (fault) problem. The only control as a citizen I have is to attempt to influence my local school board (having limited oversight) or State government. The curriculum, and resultant potential employee is so obviously not at all guided by capitalists (we might argue that NCLB is one place the "ruling elite" have Federally reached their long arms into the State run bureaucracy of education.

Yah, yah, I know what he's thinking... It's still enveloped in the broader society... Pffft. What about these so-called communist radicals? Do they have a job? Do they attend a college and pay tuition? What about their supposedly radical extremist splinter cell? I would guess they "buy" their groceries, not grow them. I would guess they "buy" their clothing, not weave it and sew it. I would guess they maybe have a car, and if so, probably pay for licenses, insurance, and "buy" gas from the evil oil companies. I would guess they take out loans from the evil bankers for school. I would guess they've also got their hands out for every possible government subsidy they can get.

So, I would say they should look in the mirror and tell us what makes any of these comrades not part and parcel of the Capitalist system? If they want change, then they need to change their lifestyle to their bloviated ideals, or continue to flog everyone around them and come off as yet another angry self-hating hypocrite who is deluded into thinking their incoherent rants are making a difference. Don't tell me communism is better. Show me.

The sad thing is they (and every other closed minded political partisan unwilling to respect their opponents as equals) really are making a difference. They make the world an angrier, hateful place. The OP is a great example. Evidently, the entire field of psychology is psuedo-science, or at least the ones who (risk malpractice suits, and act against their Hippocratic oath) practice ideological misdiagnosis. And, seemingly, everyone is bourgeois, which I just mentally substitute for the communist version of expletive or epithet. As in, "Enough is enough! I've had it with these bourgeois capitalists on this bourgeois pseudoscience system! You better strap in, I'm about to open some bourgeois ideological pandering windows!"