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RKOB is certainly right about one thing: The world capitalist class and all their representatives are watching this and thinking about how they can use it. Already, it seems the strike of graduate students in the University of California system is collapsing. It's simply not possible to run a strike virtually. Not only that, but a huge number of workers are now working from home. I think that is a very regressive policy since it separates workers. I think that will continue after this is over. We should all remember Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine". For all its weaknesses (and there was one serious one), it made an excellent point: That capitalism will use any shock that comes about, whether socially made or made by the forces of nature, to advance its agenda. Most certainly it will use this pandemic. And that is despite the fact that while it has been brought about by a pathogen and the fact that this sort of zoonotic disease is becoming increasingly common, the means of transmission of those pathogens (wildlife encroachment and factory farming, are a direct result of capitalist development. John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
