Covid-Capitalism Fails Most Basic Test of National Legitimacy

[georgephillip]

MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

"The superpower that has killed millions in its quest for global supremacy has utterly failed the most basic test of legitimacy at home: the ability to protect its own population.

"Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.

"The U.S. 'public' health sector is revealed as a hollowed-out shell, crippled and shrunken by decades of unrelenting privatization at the hands of the oligarch-serving political duopoly.

"In effect, the Lords of Capital have been devouring the nation’s protective membrane, leaving the population defenseless against, not only microbes, but every disease of the poor–plus opiates and the lethal social pathologies that spawn spectacular and uniquely American mass shootings at schools, churches and shopping malls, and the daily slaughter of Black and brown youth on the streets."

Capitalism's leaders are currently rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders. Over the past decades capitalism has built up vulnerabilities to another epic crash that any number of triggers could unleash.

Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact

 

[Zander]

Commies gonna commie....

 

[Mac-7]

Commies gonna commie....

He does sound like a lunatic

or a chinese troll

china is the cause of the disease ravishing the world health and the world economy

I suspect when we know most of the facts the story be:

shoddy safety measures in a chinese laboratory allowed a bat virus to escape into the local population

Xi knew this very soon, but knew that china was going to take a major hit on its economy

so he isolated wuhan from the rest of china while allowing free travel in and out of china including wuhan

that way the whole world would be sure to share china’s misery

 

[Sunni Man]

Looney liberal threads get sillier every day. ... ..

 

[Marion Morrison]

OP is probably an American state school graduate. They're pumping out Commies left and left these days.

 

[Fed Starving]

A lockdown is anything but capitalist but will serve a greater good for us all.

 

[georgephillip]

Commies gonna commie....

Morons gonna MAGA

Trump’s Key 2020 States Reel Under Twin Blows of Virus, Job Loss

 

[Correll]

MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

"The superpower that has killed millions in its quest for global supremacy has utterly failed the most basic test of legitimacy at home: the ability to protect its own population.
....

Diseases arise, and spread and people get sick.

This happens regardless of which governments or economic system is in place.


YOur attempt to blame Capitalism for this, is absurd.

 

[SAYIT]

MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

"The superpower that has killed millions in its quest for global supremacy has utterly failed the most basic test of legitimacy at home: the ability to protect its own population.

"Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.

"The U.S. 'public' health sector is revealed as a hollowed-out shell, crippled and shrunken by decades of unrelenting privatization at the hands of the oligarch-serving political duopoly.

"In effect, the Lords of Capital have been devouring the nation’s protective membrane, leaving the population defenseless against, not only microbes, but every disease of the poor–plus opiates and the lethal social pathologies that spawn spectacular and uniquely American mass shootings at schools, churches and shopping malls, and the daily slaughter of Black and brown youth on the streets."

Capitalism's leaders are currently rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders. Over the past decades capitalism has built up vulnerabilities to another epic crash that any number of triggers could unleash.

Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact

Monthly Review - "An Independent Socialist Magazine"

Thanks, Comrade.

 

[georgephillip]

Lords of Capital, the Divine Right of Shareholders, and "...the idiot currently occupying the White House".

MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

"The idiot currently occupying the White House did not create the healthcare crisis, and the people know it. Donald Trump is far too incompetent and unfocused to pull off such a monumental crime, which has been unfolding for decades.

"Democrats have been full partners in stripping the people of public health protections–including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the current darling of corporate media, who continues to press for $2.5 billion in Medicaid cuts in his own state even as he poses as the nation’s top virus-slayer.

"Joe Biden, the not-all-there man who some would like Cuomo to replace as the Democratic presidential nominee, vows to veto Medicare for All–the first, preliminary step towards a real national health care system–if it ever comes across his White House desk.

"Politicians of both parties take their orders from the Lords of Capital."

Covid-capitalism is the latest proof of the profit-motive's impotence to stockpile tests, masks, ventilators, hospital beds, and trained personnel BEFORE a crisis hits.

It's informative for those less inclined to authoritarian solutions to notice how Trump's, the GOP's, and most Democrats' responses to today's economic collapse carefully avoids any criticism of capitalism.

 

[georgephillip]

OP is probably an American state school graduate. They're pumping out Commies left and left these days.

Where did you graduate?

 

[Mac-7]

OP is probably an American state school graduate. They're pumping out Commies left and left these days.

Chances are he’s a foreign troll

 

[georgephillip]

china is the cause of the disease ravishing the world health and the world economy

I suspect when we know most of the facts the story be:

Some facts are already crystal clear; for 70 days Don the Con tried to spin a virus and thousands of Americans have died unnecessarily:

Rolling Stone Timeline: Coronavirus in America

"Jan 2017

"Outgoing Obama officials conduct a disaster response exercise described as 'the worst influenza pandemic since 1918' with incoming Trump officials.

"Later 2017

"Trump administration — focusing DHS on immigration — shuts down department’s modeling of flu pandemics."

 

[georgephillip]

A lockdown is anything but capitalist but will serve a greater good for us all.

Was it imposed two months too late?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

MR Online | Resistance growing to covid-capitalism

"The superpower that has killed millions in its quest for global supremacy has utterly failed the most basic test of legitimacy at home: the ability to protect its own population.

"Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital–like the killer virus–cares for nothing but reproducing itself.

"The U.S. 'public' health sector is revealed as a hollowed-out shell, crippled and shrunken by decades of unrelenting privatization at the hands of the oligarch-serving political duopoly.

"In effect, the Lords of Capital have been devouring the nation’s protective membrane, leaving the population defenseless against, not only microbes, but every disease of the poor–plus opiates and the lethal social pathologies that spawn spectacular and uniquely American mass shootings at schools, churches and shopping malls, and the daily slaughter of Black and brown youth on the streets."

Capitalism's leaders are currently rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders. Over the past decades capitalism has built up vulnerabilities to another epic crash that any number of triggers could unleash.

Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact

Can you be a little more commie? I'm not feeling enough of your righteous goose-stepping envy.


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[georgephillip]

Our attempt to blame Capitalism for this, is absurd.

Capitalism does nothing without a profit motive.
Stockpiling in advance for an inevitable pandemic is not profitable
What's the logical conclusion?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Our attempt to blame Capitalism for this, is absurd.

Capitalism does nothing without a profit motive.
Stockpiling in advance for an inevitable pandemic is not profitable
What's the logical conclusion?

Yes, the profit motive would not be supported by a huge stockpile of goods that may never be used. That is a huge waste of space and resources. And that's where your commie ass loses. Capitalism is the most efficient use of resources, period.

The End.

Shut your filthy commie mouth and get the fuck out.

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[Mac-7]

Our attempt to blame Capitalism for this, is absurd.

Capitalism does nothing without a profit motive.
Stockpiling in advance for an inevitable pandemic is not profitable
What's the logical conclusion?

Private companies do not decide whether the state and local governments stockpile or not

this is a failure of government not business

 

[georgephillip]

Monthly Review - "An Independent Socialist Magazine"

Thanks, Comrade.

See if you can respond to content using the words "profit' and "efficiency", Clown:

COVID-19 and the Failures of Capitalism - CounterPunch.org

"The third reason capitalism gets blame here is that alternative systems—those not driven by a profit-first logic—could manage viruses better.

"While not profitable to produce and stockpile everything needed for a viral pandemic, it is efficient.

"The wealth already lost in this pandemic far exceeds the cost to have produced and stockpiled the tests and ventilators, the lack of which is contributing so much to today’s disaster.

"Capitalism often pursues profit at the expense of more urgent social needs and values. In this, capitalism is grossly inefficient.

"This pandemic is now bringing that truth home to people."

 

[SAYIT]

Monthly Review - "An Independent Socialist Magazine"

Thanks, Comrade.

See if you can respond to content using the words "profit' and "efficiency", Clown:

COVID-19 and the Failures of Capitalism - CounterPunch.org

"The third reason capitalism gets blame here is that alternative systems—those not driven by a profit-first logic—could manage viruses better.

"While not profitable to produce and stockpile everything needed for a viral pandemic, it is efficient.

"The wealth already lost in this pandemic far exceeds the cost to have produced and stockpiled the tests and ventilators, the lack of which is contributing so much to today’s disaster.

"Capitalism often pursues profit at the expense of more urgent social needs and values. In this, capitalism is grossly inefficient.

"This pandemic is now bringing that truth home to people."

Wait … posting Monthly Review's tagline directly from their website is an ad hom? Does it never occur to you why most Americans do not embrace socialism nor trust socialists?