"This is the game of drug monopolies," said, on TV, an economist who has been praising the free market economy for years. They would sell drugs and deceive people with vaccines. Look what corona is doing! People have been fighting by shouting "Health should not be marketized" and calling for "free health care". Those who objected to these demands under the pretext of “efficiency” are now making judgments, criticizing drug monopolies and talking about public health.
Poor capitalism, it now has no defender!
As if nobody has believed in it.
People on the street seem certain that international monopolies are cooking something up. When you say “Do not trust in conspiracies,” they insist: “You don't know them.” That is right. Those who insist on not understanding exploitation, inequality, the greed for profit and imperialist competition for years have awakened suddenly, discussing the political economy of the epidemic.
That means panic and fear make people do unusual things.
Then let us continue and use the coronavirus to ask more questions and to make the facts accepted more.
We have already asked the first question: If you would abandon the market economy at the first opportunity, why did you not take a systematic positioning against it? Isn't it time?
Schools are very important. Children are not affected much, but they carry the virus. There is a call for “schools to be disinfected”. They must be disinfected, but we must also question why the state does not even buy soap for schools, and why the wages of cleaning workers are given by families. We should talk about the fact that the resources in education are transferred to private schools, not public schools, and private school bosses invest the money they receive from state incentives and parents in construction. We should get hold of the thief so that no one can get free of this robbery.
Otherwise, what will happen is clear as many countries are already going towards there. Capitalist states are turning to “online education”, or distance education, to cut public spending and to narrow the budget allocated to education. Numerous articles are written and conferences are organized to sell this education system, where socialization, one of the most important factors in child development, is eliminated. The coronavirus is an excellent opportunity. If you start closing schools, spending on education drops radically.
Work from home, flexible production, online education... Virtual friendships, virtual love...
But capitalism is real foolishness. This process deepens the contradictions of capitalism. A "controlled society" also means the bullet that the bosses fire on their feet, both economically and socially.
Nevertheless, there is no point in seeking reason in capitalism; this system doesn't really have a future.
The coronavirus has shed all the gilding of Europe. Naturally, we criticize our own government, but many people agree, in countries such as Germany and Italy, that their “state” failed the test. Incompetence, lack of subsidies, ignorance, unawareness… Although there is equipment, trained staff, and money, there is no populist view. The system is completely profit-oriented; there is no coordination due to privatizations.
And the most important thing is that the workers and the poor have become the target of the coronavirus that has hit people of all classes so far. The rich can isolate themselves. However, production continues in many sectors and millions of workers work under extremely harsh conditions all over the world. Moreover, they have limited access to materials required for hygiene. Rich people provide the necessary hygiene with one percent of the money they spend on cosmetics. For workers, on the other hand, soap, antiseptic wipes, and cologne are the materials that can be used economically, if they can afford them.
The coronavirus has created awareness, it is necessary to use it to good account. This system produces desperation, fear, and lies. It is the state of disintegration that prevails in all capitalist countries, from the most advanced to the poorest in the face of an epidemic. This must be understood and people must act.
We are turning into unorganized, selfish, self-abandoned societies, this should not be accepted.
One cannot help but think about Cuba. I witnessed a hurricane twice in Cuba. There was neither panic, disbelief to the authorities nor selfishness. Everyone knows what to do, no one acts individually, superstitions are not around. The state and the party are in public. They are fighting hurricanes as an organized and conscious society.
Hurricanes, earthquakes, epidemic diseases…
A populist system can cope with all these. The free market system, which is based on inequality, the biggest immorality in the world, creates the greatest collapse like this.
Look at the pitifulness that humanity is in; it was this humanity conquered space. We are pushing each other in pasta sections and toilet paper shelves.
