On March 11, 2020, planet wellness Organization announced the spread of COVID-19 a planet pandemic. According to the WHO, by May 2023 there were 765.222.932 of her cases, of which 6,921,614 were fatal.
On May 5, 2023, WHO Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, that the Organisation lowers the level of COVID warning, but at the same time that the threat has not passed distant due to the fact that ‘Every 3 minutes individual dies from coronavirus.It’s okay. ” At the same time, people started dying... the same way. In war, too.
When did the pandemic end?
For most Europeans, the "pandemic" ended much earlier. precisely on February 24, 2022, with the start of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Mr. president Putin – thanks! You interrupted it. Millions of Ukrainian displaced people, unvaccinated, without masks in 1 night made all COVID regulations even more apparent absurd. Do we inactive remember that virtually a fewer days before the Russian invasion the main public subject was how to punish the unvaccinated, and what privileges could be granted to those obedient, already accepting something, possibly a 3rd dose? And a chop! It's all gone overnight. What a fortunate coincidence...
Some fight, others get sick
Equally interesting – not for everyone. In the last 15 months, the division into the parties that are fighting and those that are sick has besides been highlighted. Take the example of Italy, which was initially far little active in the policy of Western sanctions accompanying the war in Ukraine. As a result, the strict tightening of COVID-19 was inactive in force in Italy in the summertime of 2022 (masks on beaches, “green passports”) erstwhile the remainder of Europe had no memory of the pandemic. In particular, Asian countries have consistently pursued their own anti-pandemic policies while ignoring the Euro-Atlantic problems. The past of the pandemic is so characterised by a typical US and Western European self-interest, admit your own experiences and last as valid for the remainder of the world. It is adequate to consider earlier American experiences (tests?) with avian influenza or West Nile fever, or years ago, the usage of AIDS as a polygon for epidemic propaganda, while ignoring the authentically epidemic, to the questionable degree of HIV spread in Africa.
Systemic Racism
The same was actual of COVID erstwhile stories of "global solidarity in the face of pandemics" were accompanied by a brutal refusal to suspend sanctions against Iran, at least for medicines and medical products. The WHO has equally consistently underestimated real wellness crises, pandemic outbreaks erupting in Africa, but unluckyly associated with real diseases, specified as polio (in Mozambique for the first time in 30 years), tuberculosis (return in 2020 to pre-three levels), malaria, killing the most people in 20 years, or cholera recorded in 2020 and 2021 in 8 African countries, headed by Nigeria, yet an Ebola that in 2022 returned to Uganda. No attention was paid to the complete breakdown of the African vaccination program, as if inviting real epidemics to spill out to the remainder of the planet with immigrants and refugees. Systemic racism of COVID policy so affected not only racial and cultural minorities in developed countries, but was besides clearly directed against most of humanity, presently inhabiting South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America. COVID-19 only highlighted who is the beneficiary of the capitalist System-World and who manages the form of hegemony: pandemic It's started.When it was convenient for the center of the West and they besides decided to end it.
Two Capitalist Ways transformismo
It can so be argued that the discrimination between "war or pandemic" is just an expression of a wider division State geopolitics and geoeconomics or transnationalist management of global crises, specified as climate change or biological threats. Of course, these trends can be both competitive and on another complementary levels[1]. Especially given the clear traces of the human origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus from military laboratories and knowing about American biolaboratories discovered during the war in Ukraine.
In all these cases, however, there are signs of a conflict for the future of capitalism. On the 1 hand, there are transnationalists, Transnational Capitalist Class[2], thanks to its solidarity and the desire for a global board for the universality of COVID, although the strategies had to proceed to be implemented in the face of the disgrace of transnational organisations by countries being re-fragmented. For TCC, however, this is surely not the end of the rehearsals, but at most the end of the beginning. Action for capitalist superhegemony, reinforced by a global financial consequence to COVID, tells us to look at words differently Ghebreyesusa: ‘In most cases, 1 pandemic truly ends only erstwhile another 1 begins”.
Competing imperialism
But there is besides a trend of competitive imperialism (in terms of Vladimir Lenin[3] and Nikolai Bucharina[4]), implemented by national ruling classes through individual countries. In Western realities, these groups are mostly identical to national war-industrial complexes. Theirs. The conventional method remains war[5]. And this 1 has successfully erupted: first in Ukraine, shortly possibly in Taiwan. What is worse, we know that by paraphrasing "In most cases wars do not truly end, they start again". This is besides our completely real future.
Let us repeat this: business intersects, and both trends can exchange not only with staff, but besides with methods. It is not by accident that the United States, curious in superhegemony, the undisputed primacy within the capitalist system-world, but, nevertheless, in locke’an, actually governed by the depoliticised economical sphere (especially financial) reaches for specified an old-fashioned method of war, and China, the most typical of the Hobbes' non-cutting ties between economics and politics favorably played the COVID card, although it was clearly on the table with the task of beating all Chinese assets[6].
Sovereign Response
Thus, erstwhile addressing the subject of global safety for the planet after COVIDZ, the answer must be short-term pessimistic, and the devil's alternate is another biological and climatic threat or / and subsequent wars. Can we organize and defy this capitalist / imperialist transformismo? Are we able to replace the end-end hegemony with our own narrative, our own government of truth, but above all our own action? This is simply a challenge, little even for a transnational civilian society, dreamt of by disappointed to lose its influence on national policies.[7], and more for the reborn order of sovereign national states.
Only first we must regain our sovereignty.
Konrad Hand
Speech in the Pan-African debate COVID19 No Longer wellness Threat – WHO. What the fresh position to the World produced by Afrique Media TV, May 13, 2023.
[1] Lt. K. van der Pijl, Transnational Classes and global Relatons, London 1998 and Western Hegemony and Transnational Capital: A Dialectical Perspective, [in:] A. Anievas (ed.), Marxism and planet Politics, Oxford 2009.
[2] See, among others, R. W. Cox, Production, Power and planet Order: Social Forces in the Making of History, fresh York 1987 and S. Gill (ed.), Gramsci, Historical Materialism and global Relations, Cambridge 1993.
[3] Lt. W. Lenin, Imperialism as the Highest phase of Capitalism, Warsaw 1948 [1917].
[4] Lt. N. Bucharin, Imperialism and planet Economy, London 1987 [1917].
[5] See for example A. Budd, Class, States and global Relations, London 2013.
[6] More about the discrimination ‘Lockean’ and ‘Hobbesian’ in the works of K. van der Pijl, among others. Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq, London 2006, pp. 26-46.
[7] See for example A. Bieler, A. D. Morton, Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis. Cambridge 2018.
