Paris Marx is a socialist writer and graduate student at McGill University in Montreal. They are the editor of Radical Urbanist.
Posted on 03/24/2020 3:54:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the past few weeks, all notion of what’s politically and economically realistic has gone out the window in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus and the accompanying economic collapse this pandemic will certainly bring. To protect lives and livelihoods, governments around the world are taking measures that would have been treated as unaffordable or even impossible just last month.
We must respond to COVID-19 in a way that centers the most vulnerable people in our society, many of whom are also at highest risk from the virus. However, we also need to think about how we come out of this crisis: Do we simply revive the status quo once the virus is cured, or do we take this opportunity to build a society that refocuses on improving the lives of the vulnerable instead of the wealthy, and deals with the threat of the climate crisis barreling toward us?
Crises have been the catalyst for better societies in the past. In Sweden, the Spanish flu of 1918 was part of the justification for the welfare state they’re known for today. In the United Kingdom, the end of World War II brought the election of the Labour Party, which implemented the single-payer, government-run National Health Service. Even in the United States, it was in the aftermath of the Great Depression that President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the New Deal after being pushed by labor, a surging left and grassroots groups across the country. The same can happen today.
With the restrictions of false political realism out the window, we now need to ask ourselves whether we’re willing to accept the harms and inequities that we’ve become so used to, or seize this opportunity to address them once and for all. The decision should be an easy one.
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Paris Marx is a socialist writer and graduate student at McGill University in Montreal. They are the editor of Radical Urbanist.
Marx. Well what do you know.
Marx. Well what do you know.
Touting the beginnings of Collectivism, “The same can happen today”
FDR’s “New Deal” prolonged a recession into the Great Depression
The people who have skills and knowledge will recover. Can you imagine what it must be like to be a 35 year old libtard trustifarian who doesn’t know how to do a single thing that is productive? Who until last week thought that their tens of millions meant a life of comfort and the pursuit of their “passions”. Their world is going up in smoke and they have no survival skills in this new world at all.
Thank-you China!
“They”?
Just barf.
Communist Montreal Metrosexual Millennial... Is there anything they don’t know?
The old divisions are melting away before our eyes. It ain’t right or left, conservative or democrat, Christian or Non. It is the people who are responsible for what has happened and those they have done it to.
Which was only “cured” by WW2.
No,this a gift from the CCP or ChiComs.
This whole mess was caused if not created by the communists, and they should be the ones to pay for it. How much in borrowed money do we owe them again?
Correction: This is a gift from the CCP or ChiComs.
The ChiComs has blood on their hands.
That was true of communism before this.
Looks like a sissy boy.
Could be the real problem is the big government red tape put in by the bureaucrat commies.
Can we assume?
I think we can.
He goes by the pronoun “they”.
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