COVID-19: Capitalist and postcapitalist perspectives
This opinion piece discusses key weaknesses of advanced capitalism exposed in the origin and economic repercussions of Covid-19 and, conversely, aspects of grassroots organising and speculation pointing in a postcapitalist direction: (1) some background, namely the crisis of nature caused by capitalist activities that reverberated in the evolution and spread of the pandemic; (2) a perspective on the nature of the Covid-19 crisis in terms of practical and capitalist developments, and resistance; (3) a discussion of this particular economic crisis in the context of generic crises of capitalism; and (4) identification of ways in which grassroots responses to and reflection on this crisis hint at, even epitomise, postcapitalist ways forward
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