The Covid-19 Pandemic: "Their Contradictions and Ours"

Alain Bihr

Since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared at the end of 2019, all governments have handled it in a seemingly haphazard, even chaotic manner, whatever the choices made, which in turn often differed from one another. This is attributed as much to inexperience, amateurism, lack of vision, insult or even cynicism, factors that combine, in varying doses, most of the time. However, the very generality of this situation leads us to question the presence of more structural factors: solid contradictions whose roots lie at the very heart of capitalist relations of production.

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