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I can only hope that at least some critics would show a bit more
sensivity for the extraordinary conditions of repression particularly in
many African countries (but also others). The army is on the streets,
killing people and so on. African comrades in the slums are living in
much more difficult conditions than those in North America or Western
Europe.
But even in Europe conditions are becoming more repressive: yesterday
the Austrian government announced a ban for all public meetings,
demonstrations etc. at least until the end of June. Similar developments
are taking place in other countries. (Who could have seen this coming?!)
It is also noticable that yesterday the EU defence ministers had a video
conference to coordinate the role of the military in the current crisis.
(https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/77151/video-conference-defence-ministers-remarks-high-representativevice-president-josep-borrell_en
)
I fear that some of the people who expressed their outrage about my post
are much less outraged about the banning of public assemblies and
demonstrations. They probably even support such banning! This is the
real outrageous thing - at least for people who call themselves progressive!
Am 06.04.2020 um 22:53 schrieb MM via Marxism:
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On Apr 6, 2020, at 6:59 AM, A.R. G via Marxism <[email protected]>
wrote:
RKOB, I have noticed you have written highly detailed and well-thought out
polemics on imperialism and other topics.
So I have to say I am really flabbergasted to see you posting conspiracy
non-sense from social media when it comes to the COVID-19 issue. What's
going on?!
I have to add that I’m disappointed, although not really surprised, by RKOB’s
radio silence on this, after Amith’s quite generous intervention. As I wrote on
March 23rd, in response to an earlier misjudged message from RKOB:
“MP seems to be focused on looking for evidence to confirm a thesis that none
of us disputes: that ruling forces will attempt to take advantage of the
crisis. That singular focus, and perhaps a lack of understanding of
epidemiology and public health, seem to have drawn him dangerously close to the
brink of conspiracist confirmation bias.”
Unfortunately, I suspect the silence today is due to a frantic search for
something that can be construed as evidence in support of the debunked hoax. It
wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen that happen; the Syrian catastrophe led
many folks down a path from which they couldn’t return, since doing so would
have required a more radical and embarrassing reversal than some folks are up
to. I suppose we should have anticipated that COVID-19 would also have some
political casualties, over and above the medical ones.
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