Navigation

Globalisation and the pandemic

Posted Apr 30, 2020 by Prabhat Patnaik

Globalization , Health Global Newswire coronavirus , COVID-19 , pandemic

Originally published: IDEAS (International Development Economics Associates) (April 24, 2020)

SSER-IDEAS Online Lecture Series — COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Failures and Their Impact on the Lives of People

Monthly Review does not necessarily adhere to all of the views conveyed in articles republished at MR Online. Our goal is to share a variety of left perspectives that we think our readers will find interesting or useful. —Eds.

coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic

Both sides-ing bleach injection

Carnivals of the damned: the U.S. far-right fights the lockdown

Comments are closed.

Monthly Review Essays

Lefebvre in the Age of COVID
by Andy Merrifield
COVID has upended urban life as we once knew it. But it intensified already existing pathologies, those contaminating “normal,” pre-pandemic life. Our present urban reality is one of the de-encounter, a thinning down rather than thickening up, the dispersion and dilution of city life, its fear and loathing.
The Historical Challenges Facing the Socialist Movement
by István Mészáros
The ‘crisis of politics,’ which cannot be denied today even by the system’s worst apologists represents a profound crisis of legitimacy of the established social metabolic mode of reproduction and its overall framework of political control. This is what has brought about the historical actuality of the socialist offensive, although the pursuit of its own “line of least resistance” by labor continues to favor for the moment the maintenance of the existing order, despite the increasingly obvious inability of that order to “deliver the goods” as the once overwhelmingly accepted foundation of its legitimacy.

See all Monthly Review Essays

Top Menu

Navigation

Comments are closed.

MR Press News

Climate & Capitalism

Cheap Motels and a Hotplate