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Pandemic and socialism : a masterful political Lesson!

by Bruno Guigue   - 1 April 2020

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Decomposed western democracies, on the verge of a health implosion, incapable of dealing with the epidemic when we are only at the beginning, and whose versatile leaders told us in January that there was no problem, in February that it was only a bad flu, and at the beginning of March that it was necessary to go to vote and we agglutinate in chorus on the terraces of the bistros.

Western leaders who count on collective immunity synonymous with the extermination of our elders to put an end to the epidemic, but who are careful not to say it and invoke a war they have already lost for want of winning it; incompetent and corrupt sold to Big Pharma who are reluctant to admit results that seem to be proven and that deserve to be massively tested; whether it is confinement, screening or treatment, indecision and cacophony which gives the impression that there is no pilot on the plane.

In the spotlight of curious doctors who, failing to go to the front in white coats, spend their time perouring on TV sets in the company of journalistic scoundrels whose vileness transpires in the slightest of their words; far from the spotlight, on the other hand, nursing staff who heroically fight under the contempt of this ruling class who demanded the dismantling of the public hospital to increase its profits.

A healthcare system which was the pride of the nation, and which has been sacrificed on the altar of capital with neoliberal reforms; exemplary social security created by the communists in 1945, which saved millions of lives, but which the oligarchy has dismantled at the expense of public health; a massive abandonment of populations to the logic of individual profit, today, when it is necessary to mobilize the spirit of solidarity and firmly seize the wealth where it is found.

A blatant failure, a massive neglect of the so-called democracies in the face of the challenges that this pandemic which is not the first and which will not be the last presents to us; the unilateral disarmament of the most vulnerable populations in the face of the disease orchestrated by governments which have delivered the people of France to their worst enemies; who offered it as pasture to an oligarchy which would sell its mother to thicken its wallet with the illusory aim of filling an empty and plunged existence, as Marx says, "in the icy waters of selfish calculation".

At the other end of the world, the Chinese are relentlessly vilified by our media, shamelessly slandered by the leaders of the United States, while they have done everything to curb the epidemic, in two months, under the aegis of 'a state for which public health is a national priority and solidarity is something other than an election campaign slogan sponsored by business bankers; Asian powers which succeed in stemming the evil by mobilizing colossal means, leaning on collective values ​​which have not undergone there as with us the neoliberal rolling; a huge country, Russia, which has managed to contain the spread of the epidemic on national soil.

Chinese, Cuban, Venezuelan and Russian medical teams who fly to the rescue of Italy, a European country betrayed by its partners; a European Union whose uselessness is patent, pathetic impotence, dilapidated exposed to the eyes of all in this inability to use the least mechanism of solidarity; Cuban doctors authorized to intervene in Martinique, a veritable snub for a great capitalist power forced to call to the rescue the only socialist state in the Caribbean.

This same country, Cuba, which contains the epidemic by mobilizing an exemplary health system, praised by the WHO, and which is worth to the Cuban people a life expectancy of 80 years, now greater than that of the United States; the indisputable success, therefore, of countries with a strong, sovereign and concerned with public health; States ready to agree to slow growth, if necessary, to save human lives; while Western leaders make the opposite choice, at the risk of sacrificing both the economy and health, ultimately, letting the situation get worse.

A formidable lesson of things administered to the people, a masterful political lesson, in the end, on the comparative virtues of the so-called democracies which abandon them to their fate and of the so-called dictatorships which do everything to save them from an announced death; a lesson on the superiority of Chinese or Cuban socialism, and to tell the truth of real progressism, on regimes which have only human rights in their mouths, but which act as if the pandemic were the effect of laws natural and have their eyes riveted on the stock market prices while the hecatomb continues.




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