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I do not agree with you in 2 points:
1) there has been indeed a global wave of mass protests since mid-2019
not seen since many decades. This has been even recognized by a recently
published study of a bourgeois think-tank. We have reported about this
in an article
(https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/confirmation-of-revolutionary-character-of-historic-period/)
The current counter-revolutionary offensive using the COVID-19 crisis as
cover is a strike against this global wave of popular uprisings.
2) Mass lock down of millions of people and suppressing democratic
rights like demonstrating and assembling helps the ruling class, not the
oppressed. It also does not help in itself to contain the COVID-19
pandemic. Look to Italy where you have a lock down and people die. South
Korea has mass testing, free healt care and and a good health carse
system. This why it managed the crisis without mass lock down.
Trusting the capitalist state and its propaganda is never a good guide!
Am 18.03.2020 um 12:37 schrieb Mark Lause via Marxism:
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I apologize if I'm repeating points already made in the discussion but it's
important that they "take" . . . .
It is the nature of epidemics like this that people who don't have symptoms
spread the disease, and this is much worse than other examples because the
symptoms seem to hit people differently. A large number of people are said
to have already had it and shaken it off in a few days, while it can be
fatal for a significant minority of those who get it. Gathering in large
numbers spreads the virus quicker. Not doing this is to avoid crashing the
resources of an ill-prepared health care system, including the people
needed to run it.
Beyond these obvious medical realities, this pandemic is not only slamming
us, but it's starting to pull down their economy, bit by bit, and I heard
one of the talking heads on the idiot box are discussing the possibility of
coming out of this with an unemployment rate of 20% (and they're thinking
in government figures).
When I look out on the absence of mass demonstrations in the streets today,
it looks precisely like the absence of mass demonstrations in the streets
before the pandemic hit. There are other reasons we don't have large
numbers in the street than the distancing brought on by the pandemic.
Building a movement is part of a process. Take this time of isolation to
read a book and discuss it online. And/or hold online classes. Make and
retain contacts for the future. There's much productive to be done in the
here and now that will be useful in the future, particularly with a work
force that will be wiser, angrier, and hopefully more ready to take to the
streets..
What will not be useful at this point is getting those willing to gather in
large groups disproportionately infected or putting them in a position to
get their family, friends and coworkers sick.
Solidarity,
Mark L.
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