Konrad Rekas: COVID Social Murder
It is too early to fully sum up the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we already know today that the optimists who believed that the pandemic crisis would undermine capitalist legitimacy and restore class solidarity and national states power – were wrong. On the contrary, global neoliberalism is even stronger thanks to the pandemic and has increased its profits. It has obtained it not only through exploitation, but directly through the social murder of the working class and especially older, retired people.