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.

itsgoingdown.org/covid-19-preliminary-thoughts-on-the-current-situation/

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/

This is the part 4 of the series on Bernie Sanders as mayor

jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-vermont-mayor-jane-driscoll/

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/

For some reason I completely forgot to send anything related to this yesterday. I'm pretty sure that by now you will have already heard the new though

theintercept.com/2020/04/08/bernie-sanders-drops-out/