Year one of capitalism's Covid crisis
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Editorial from issue 12 of Socialist Alternative, the Marxist journal of the Socialist Party (ISA Ireland). Stepping back to assess the damage of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic is sobering. As of March 2021, there have been 123 million confirmed cases and a staggering 2.7 million deat
  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think this party has any seats or many members at all Ireland.

    This is getting mad at some Trotskyist blog with 6 readers.

  • 707R [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Trotskyists go in the bin. It's not even well argued, particularly the "vaccine diplomacy" section.

    • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The only moral way to distribute vaccines is to sell it to white people and lobby for patents so the 3rd world can't manufacture their own. If you give vaccines to poor people, they might like you and your regime, which is imperialism

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Wish there was an easy way to find out that someone is a Trot cuz it isn't nice to find out in the middle of the article

  • youcanringmydeng [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    "The stunning contrast between the enormous technological and scientific advancements of recent decades, and the poverty and deprivation still faced by billions of people is damning."

    If only there was a country, that was breaking this cycle through mass public investment, nationalization of domestic resources and third world cooperation. Oh well, back to writing newspapers about how we can stop imperialism for the next 100 years.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      4 years ago

      Weird that somehow this is both exclusively the result of capitalism yet no other capitalist country has accomplished or even attempts to do such a thing, wonder what fundamental difference may hint at why China does differently.

      Also inb4 "Neolibs argue this too". Neolibs lie, yes, the problem with them making this argument is that they are fucking lying and capitalism is not responsible nor cares to do such a thing on its own, if you argue this way please learn to analyse the actual fundamental differences between arguments and actions that have only surface level similarities.

  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Number one tell of whether a socialist party is an op is the china question.

  • DBTraven [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah Trots gonna Trot. Some good folks in this org but their essentially of little consequence except as a culty social club

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Meh, seems like a nice article, one paragraph doesn’t invalidate it, even if you feel differently about nature of china.

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I wanted to share it with a friend who doesn't know much about China