Tag: Capitalism
The Virus Infects Politics, Part One
Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.
My Fight as a Worker and as a Feminist During COVID-19
The pandemic has highlighted the contradictions between production and social reproduction, making both the various forms of oppression and the cracks in the system more apparent. Maddelena Manca tells the story of women workers who, in addition to facing the choice between health and work, have to carry the burden of domestic labor and childcare.
COVID Capitalism
Tithi Bhattacharya and Gareth Dale argue that COVID-19 reveals capitalist system’s stark prioritization of profitmaking over lifemaking. Within such a system, crises like the present one will become the norm, rather than an anomaly.
COVID-19 as Social Murder
Josh Seim argues that COVID-19 isn’t just a pandemic and that we should put the homicidal structures of capitalism on trial.