pandemic 2

PANDEMIC!
capitalism,” or will a new better balanced, if perhaps more
modest, world order emerge from it?
Everybody is saying today that we will have to change
our social and economic system. But, as Thomas Piketty
noted in a recent comment in Nouvel Observateur, what
really matters is how we change it, in what direction,
which measures are needed. A common sooth now in circulation
is that, since we are all now in this crisis together,
we should forget about politics and just work in unison
to save ourselves. This notion is false: true politics are
needed now—decisions about solidarity are eminently
political.
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