COVID and Capitalism: A Conversation with Richard Wolff. Issue 4 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lyon-Callo, Vincent
• Is Part Of: Rethinking Marxism. Volume 32:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 570
• Page End: 588
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: Capitalist Crisis -- COVID-19 Pandemic -- Class Analysis -- Nondeterminist -- Profit Motive; Communism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 335.4305
• DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2020.1809837
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0893-5696

Abstract

Abstract : How do we make sense of the ways in which COVID-19 has developed and been responded to in the United States? How can nondeterminist class analysis help us to understand why the pandemic has impacted the United States so severely compared to other nations? What do these policies and experiences reveal about current capitalist economic and social relations within the United States today? Are there possibilities for interventions through a nonessentialist Marxist analysis and understanding? On a beautiful June afternoon, Rethinking Marxism coeditor Vin Lyon-Callo discussed these questions via zoom with his former professor, long-term RM board member, and host of the quite popular public intervention Economic Update, Richard Wolff (lightly edited for content and clarity).