Oh my, how corona has exposed the failings of capitalism. The most insidious of which is how it conditions people to believe there can be no alternative. Yet there must be. We are a week away from schools reopening and are we ready? Do schools have the necessary conditions and protective equipment? I think we all know the answer.
Corona has exposed the disgusting existence of sweatshops in places like Leicester. An open secret.
Britain's demand for cheap fuel, according to the Guardian, could be fuelling the spread of the virus in factories and homes. Workers forced to share ratty conditions in return for crap wages. But if prices rise it just means people can't afford the food. They don't buy it because it's poor quality (or poorer). They buy it because it's what they can afford.
The answer, then, isn't to raise the prices. Instead we must look at where and how food is sourced. Food! It grows on the land, we do not and should not want for it. We only do so because of the closing off of land by the rich ruling classes historically. These are the commons, they should be for everyone. We don't need an absentee class of landlords profiting simply from ownership of a deed. This is patently ridiculous, and yet it is absolutely the norm. Now we have people working that land for a wage that cannot, increasingly, afford the produce thereof.
Capitalism digs its own grave.
Dismally I see the left engaging in infighting again on Twitter. Owen Jones, who seems to attract more shit than surely is deserved, criticised Kerry Mendoza, editor/owner of the Canary 'news' site. I say 'news' because unfortunately it's the left equivalent of the Sun. It's just clickbait and it's very frustrating because they obviously mean well. Sadly she and her site are wholly ignorant of antisemitism and continually give a platform to those useful idios on the left, the cranks that perpetuate harmful stereotypes and tropes.
Sadly she simply doesn't engage with valid criticism. So many on the left are like this; any attempt to correct them is met with abuse and victim hood. We're on the same side ffs. She had made a comment that Owen thought trivialised the holocaust. That's not to say she's a holocaust denier or even that she intends to behave that way, but sadly that's how her comments get read. The left needs to do better because we know the right is full of bad faith actors and horrific attack dogs. Racists and scumbags who will weaponize antisemitism against their enemies. It doesn't make things better when left wingers help that process!
The left in Britain is a joke. Where is the unity and intelligence to understand these issues?
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