The pandemic makes clear that useful vaccines only come about as a side effect of making profit. It is time to seize the pharmaceutical companies and unleash their full potential to fight illness and promote wellness.
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Covid-19: The Endgame?
The working class suffers miserably under the Covid-19 pandemic. But in record time, we begin mass immunization! Is this the endgame? Despite an invaluable scientific tool, class relations threaten a second wave deadlier than the first, a botched vaccine rollout, and Sars-CoV-2 variants that might just undermine vaccination altogether.
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Geometric composition with factory landscape. Giorgio de Chirico.
Contradictions in Capitalism — For-profit Agribusiness Threatens Everything
Do pandemics emerge simply by chance? Arguing from a eco-socialist perspective, we instead highlight how the capitalist system inevitably leads to the vertically-integrated and globalized agribusiness model that serves as a breeding ground for new pandemics.
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La Gare de l’Est. Maximilien Luce
The Virology of Capitalism
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialists insist that “Capitalism is the Virus!” Capitalist systems promote the material conditions to promote pandemics and other widespread health problems. Austerity drives malnutrition and susceptibility to pestilence, and the profit-motive leads to inappropriate usage of antibiotics. We must inoculate ourselves against corporate propaganda and wipe the system of exploitation and oppression off the face of the earth.
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Distraining for Rent. Sir David Wilkie.
Socialism and Human Health
We are taught that all improvements in societal health are causally linked to a corresponding scientific advance. This is the myth of heroic science. It is clear that lifespan has steadily increased due to a decline in infectious disease mortality. However, this has more to do with improve quality of life due to labour and socialist movements than antibiotic and vaccine development. Socialism is capable of improving our material conditions through wealth redistribution and my allowing democratic control of our scientific institutions to make sure we all benefit from our collective genius and creativity.
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