A lot of responses to the pandemic along the lines of "it& #39;s time to say goodbye to capitalism" remind me of the starry eyed responses to Occupy. I swear I don& #39;t want to be pessimistic but I ask: since this all began, has power shifted at all? even a tiny bit?

that doesn& #39;t mean this isn& #39;t an opportunity but I am skeptical of analysis that treat this situation like the fall of capitalism is a fact. If such a thing were to happen, it& #39;d take a lot of death and a lot of organizing

KLM has laid off thousands this week. In the same breath they went to the government to ask for a multi billion "loan". Meanwhile artists, culture workers, freelancers, etc are left in the cold. How is that any different than always? https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/03/klm-seeking-multibillion-euro-emergency-loan-dutch-govt">https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/0...

while homeless are kicked from shelters every morning, the discussion is how to support Bed and Breakfast owners until the tourist industry can resume its predatory march. Again, how is that not the usual?

there will be no meaningful change in capitalism until the very foundations of it: private property, wealth accumulation and the racial and gender divisions of labor are not centered. Anything else will be a patch and capitalism& #39;s defense mechanisms to quiet the protest