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“Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe.”

Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form.”

Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“In the same year as the original Disaster article, Meredeth Turshen attacked the paradigm of clinical medicine as excessively preoccupied with how the individual body reacts to disease, missing the bigger picture of class and other collectivities. She cited Engels’s descriptions of how polluted air, poorly ventilated houses, overcrowded slums and omnipresent sewage predisposed the workers of Manchester to become ill. She could have also quoted Rosa Luxemburg: ‘The doctors can trace the fatal infection in the intestines of the poisoned victims as long as they look through their microscopes; but the real germ which caused the death of the people in the asylum is called – capitalist society, in its purest culture.’ Since the 1970s, critical epidemiology has agreed with critical vulnerability theory on emphasising the social over the natural: disease and disaster as produced through processes internal to society.”

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Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“No road map, no manifesto, no vision from the climate movement - and it has its fair share of radicals - ever sketched anything like the meteor storm of state interventions that hit the planet in March 2020, and yet we were always told that we were being unrealistic, unpragmatic, dreamers or alarmists. Never again should such lies be given a hearing.”

Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“In his airport bestseller from 2018, Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker, the leading voice in the choir of bourgeois optimism, revelled in the ‘conquest of infectious disease’ all over the globe – Europe, America, but above all the developing countries – as proof that ‘a rich world is a healthier world’, or, in transparent terms, that a world under the thumb of capital is the best of all possible worlds. ‘ “Smallpox was an infectious disease” ’, Pinker read on Wikipedia – ‘yes, “smallpox was” ’; it exists no more, and the diseases not yet obliterated are being rapidly decimated. Pinker closed the book on the subject by confidently predicting that no pandemic would strike the world in the foreseeable future. Had he cared to read the science, he would have known that waves from a rising tide were already crashing against the fortress he so dearly wished to defend. He could, for instance, have opened the pages of Nature, where a team of scientists in 2008 analysed 335 outbreaks of ‘emerging infectious diseases’ since 1940 and found that their number had ‘risen significantly over time’.”

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Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“Social democracy as we now know it underwent its moment of speciation when Eduard Bernstein began to question the orthodoxy of revolution. His essential postulate was the absence of crises. The Steven Pinker of socialism, he pointed to the empirical fact that no serious crisis had rocked the capitalist economy for the past two or three decades, which invalidated the Marxian prophecy of a system trending towards collapse. Since it was not prone to malfunctioning, the idea of seizing power, smashing decrepit capitalism and installing a completely different order had become redundant; instead social democracy could continue to grow in strength, extract piecemeal reforms and gradually lift the working class out of the mire. Rosa Luxemburg very famously objected that the crisis tendencies had merely been postponed. In the near future, they would burst forth with even more dreadful violence. Ignoring her prognosis, the social democrats in the making went ahead and presently gave their first demonstration of how they dealt with catastrophe: by expediting it through consent.”

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Book:Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century