COVID-19, Economic Depression, and the Black Lives Matter Protests
Will the Triple Crisis Bring a Working-Class Revolt in the United States?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-072-04-2020-08_2Keywords:
Health, Capitalism, Political Economy, Movements, InequalityAbstract
Crisis reveals the fault lines in society. COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on our health and killing us in large numbers, bringing with it the most massive and steep economic collapse in U.S. history. Then, there was the murder of George Floyd and the resulting astonishing global protests against racism. Anyone can see that capitalism, facing no real opposition in decades, has reverted to its default position: only profit rules us and those with money will beat down those with none, without mercy or remorse.
