pandemic 2

COMMUNISM OR BARBARISM, AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
isolation, phone and internet are our principal links with
others; and both are controlled by the state who can disconnect
us at its will.
So what will happen? What previously seemed
impossible is already taking place: For instance on
March 24, 2020 Boris Johnson announced the temporary
nationalization of the UK’s railways. As Assange told
Yanis Varoufakis in a brief phone conversation: “this new
phase of the crisis is, at the very least, making it clear to
us that anything goes—that everything is now possible” 3 .
Of course, everything flows in all directions, from the best
to the worst. Our situation now is therefore profoundly
political: we are facing radical choices.
It is possible that, in parts of the world, state power
will half-disintegrate, that local warlords will control
their territories in a general Mad Max-style struggle
for survival, especially if threats like hunger or environmental
degradation accelerate. It is possible that
extremist groups, will adopt the Nazi strategy of “let
the old and weak die” to strengthen and rejuvenate our
nation” (some groups are already encouraging members
who contracted coronavirus to spread the contagion to
3. https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/03/24/last-night-julianassange-called-me-here-is-what-we-talked-about/.
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