The post you responded to contained the claim "covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital like the killer virus care for nothing but reproducing itself."
You appear to miss the cooperative aspects required when human beings attempt to survive in hunter gatherer tribes. How successful would any rugged individual "good caveman hunter" be when attempting to slay a Woolly Mammoth without support? Probably about as successful as one individual hunter trying to hoard the surplus meat obtained from the hunt.
Not when dealing with national emergencies like a global pandemic and economic collapse. States and local governments have no ability to manage an effective response to such extreme events.
The profit motive determines how many mask, swabs, and ventilators are produced by private capitalists which means there will always be a shortage in times of crisis.
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At the very least, some humans are far more disposed towards violence than others...
MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism
"The superpower that has killed millions in its quest for global supremacy has utterly failed the most basic test of legitimacy at home: the ability to protect its own population.
"Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.
"The U.S. 'public' health sector is revealed as a hollowed-out shell, crippled and shrunken by decades of unrelenting privatization at the hands of the oligarch-serving political duopoly.
"In effect, the Lords of Capital have been devouring the nation’s protective membrane, leaving the population defenseless against, not only microbes, but every disease of the poor–plus opiates and the lethal social pathologies that spawn spectacular and uniquely American mass shootings at schools, churches and shopping malls, and the daily slaughter of Black and brown youth on the streets."
Capitalism's leaders are currently rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders. Over the past decades capitalism has built up vulnerabilities to another epic crash that any number of triggers could unleash.
Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact
Local governments do no have to deal with national emergencies
You have no clue how the economy works in a capitalist systemThe profit motive determines how many mask, swabs, and ventilators are produced by private capitalists which means there will always be a shortage in times of crisis.
Just because your obscure source - Monthly Review - publishes an opinion piece that makes those claims doesn't make them factual or holy. Their banner - "Monthly Review - "An Independent Socialist Magazine"
Comrade GP is a devout socialist and as even Salma knows:You have no clue how the economy works in a capitalist systemThe profit motive determines how many mask, swabs, and ventilators are produced by private capitalists which means there will always be a shortage in times of crisis.
Why have heroic US capitalists provided testing for less than one percent of their population? See if you can explain that without using the phrase "profit motive."
He does sound like a lunaticCommies gonna commie....
or a chinese troll
china is the cause of the disease ravishing the world health and the world economy
I suspect when we know most of the facts the story be:
shoddy safety measures in a chinese laboratory allowed a bat virus to escape into the local population
Xi knew this very soon, but knew that china was going to take a major hit on its economy
so he isolated wuhan from the rest of china while allowing free travel in and out of china including wuhan
that way the whole world would be sure to share china’s misery
The problem is competition from slave-wage chinaHe does sound like a lunaticCommies gonna commie....
or a chinese troll
china is the cause of the disease ravishing the world health and the world economy
I suspect when we know most of the facts the story be:
shoddy safety measures in a chinese laboratory allowed a bat virus to escape into the local population
Xi knew this very soon, but knew that china was going to take a major hit on its economy
so he isolated wuhan from the rest of china while allowing free travel in and out of china including wuhan
that way the whole world would be sure to share china’s misery
Not at all. He nailed it. American capitalism has been shredding the social safety net since Ronald Reagan declared an end to the War on Poverty in 1988. Reagan's changes to the tax code, and destruction of the union movement, ended the American workers' participation in the American Dream with endless chants of "personal responsibility", as he funnelled more and more of the fruits of their labours to their bosses and the shareholder class.
Now, the US economy is forcing minimum wage "essential workers" in the food service and production industries, out to work while a pandemic rages. They have no masks, no gloves, and no health insurance. And they're dying, by the thousands.
It's not the wealthy peole who are dying. It's the asthmatic kid who stocks the shelves of your grocery store. It's the low wage ambulance drivers and EMS staff who don't have enough PPE's. It's the police officers who are keeping your country safe.
The poor, the elderly, those with pre-conditions are suddenly disposable, because the Economy. That's the uncomfortable reality of America today.
The elderly and overweight people are always at riskHe does sound like a lunaticCommies gonna commie....
or a chinese troll
china is the cause of the disease ravishing the world health and the world economy
I suspect when we know most of the facts the story be:
shoddy safety measures in a chinese laboratory allowed a bat virus to escape into the local population
Xi knew this very soon, but knew that china was going to take a major hit on its economy
so he isolated wuhan from the rest of china while allowing free travel in and out of china including wuhan
that way the whole world would be sure to share china’s misery
Not at all. He nailed it. American capitalism has been shredding the social safety net since Ronald Reagan declared an end to the War on Poverty in 1988. Reagan's changes to the tax code, and destruction of the union movement, ended the American workers' participation in the American Dream with endless chants of "personal responsibility", as he funnelled more and more of the fruits of their labours to their bosses and the shareholder class.
Now, the US economy is forcing minimum wage "essential workers" in the food service and production industries, out to work while a pandemic rages. They have no masks, no gloves, and no health insurance. And they're dying, by the thousands.
It's not the wealthy peole who are dying. It's the asthmatic kid who stocks the shelves of your grocery store. It's the low wage ambulance drivers and EMS staff who don't have enough PPE's. It's the police officers who are keeping your country safe.
The poor, the elderly, those with pre-conditions are suddenly disposable, because the Economy. That's the uncomfortable reality of America today.
