With the pandemic, are the capitalists becoming Social Democrats?
- The pandemic that we are suffering so severely will leave us many lessons in all areas: social, economic, political, health, scientific, research, solidarity… Undoubtedly. However, we can say clearly, because we see it day by day, that the coronavirus is becoming today’s neoliberals – capitalists of all life – as the most enthusiastic social communists.
Those who privatised health, dependency, energy, education, etc., and took care of slimming down the state by doing big business, when they come badly – like this present plague – are now the greatest social democrats and interventionists. But the benefits are the same ones that have always privatized and socialized the losses or their reduction. Something that already happened in the previous crisis, when banks were rescued with 60,000 million euros from public coffers.
There is Donald Trump, who is committed to state intervention; the governor of New York, who calls for the nationalization of companies; the IMF, which calls for sufficient public resources for the health sector; Luis De Guindos, vice-president of the ECB and former minister of the PP, who is committed to a "minimum emergency income"; much right, which also calls for more involvement of the state....
It is embarrassing, angry and eager to fight them. Because they are making statements in favor of state interventionism, when they have fattened with private companies; when they have destroyed public health; when they have turned nursing homes into big business; when they have invested millions and millions in the manufacture of weapons and projects like the TAV against society; and here they "have forgotten" to manufacture masks, respirators and all kinds of protective materials.
When this epidemic is over, they will return from their capitalist watchdogs, go up to the winter resort of Davos and continue to do business with the destruction of the welfare state.
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