Working people receive their incomes from the government, although they lose out a bit as their incomes are not fully subsidised. The rich also end up with the money they would have received anyway via rents, interest and corporate incomes. Crucially, however, the spending of the rich has decreased massively. This means that the rich end up profiting as their income has stayed the same but their outgoings have fallen.
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... the initial non-State response to the COVID-19 crisis has been almost entirely led by far left forces, which have established mutual aid networks in communities across North America, while putting forth economic demands around rent and working conditions for those deemed to be “essential employees.” ... Despite their fantasies of “serving the nation,” far right forces of the national-populist variety have been incapable of doing anything useful in this crisis, and have instead been content to vent on social media.
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It's Going Down
COVID-19: Preliminary Thoughts on the Current Situation - It's Going Down
Report from Montreal Antifascists about developing an antifascist and anti-colonial analysis on the growing wave of reaction that is building alongside the coronavirus pandemic. What follows are preliminary thoughts; things are changing quickly and in unpredictable…
The final struggle between the working class and its oppressors is knocking at our doorstep. This process will take years, and the old order will deploy all the tools of repression that it has accumulated over the preceding decades. But we have vision, necessity, and hope on our side. If we can communicate the simple promises of solidarity and freedom to our people, and if we can organize with the newly-radicalized, we really will have a world to win.
... There is no alternative to the socialist future.
roarmag.org/essays/the-future-will-be-socialist-or-will-not-be-at-all/
... There is no alternative to the socialist future.
roarmag.org/essays/the-future-will-be-socialist-or-will-not-be-at-all/
ROAR Magazine
The future will be socialist — or it will not be at all
We are shackled by a system that has outlived its usefulness. COVID-19 paves the way for radical systemic change and a transition to a socialized economy.
This is the part 4 of the series on Bernie Sanders as mayor
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-vermont-mayor-jane-driscoll/
jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-vermont-mayor-jane-driscoll/
Jacobinmag
How Mayor Bernie Sanders Orchestrated a Political Revolution
Elected mayor of Vermont’s biggest city, Bernie Sanders found himself stymied by an obstructionist local establishment at every turn — until he and the movement behind him started fighting back and winning.
He would come to develop a kind of red-green critical modernism that remains deeply relevant today: “Urban design is ready for an explosion of fresh forms, inspired by the democratic roots of the critique of modernist urbanism, by a deeply ecological sensibility, by a fond embrace of the pluralist character of our culture, and by a critical incorporation of the new and inescapably transformative technologies of electronic adjacency.”
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/michael-sorkin-obituary-architect-urban-planning/
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/michael-sorkin-obituary-architect-urban-planning/
Jacobinmag
“The Collective Work of Art We Call the City”
We pay tribute to Michael Sorkin, the architect and writer who died last week after contracting COVID-19. Sorkin spent his life both interpreting and changing cities in the interest of economic justice.