The Covid-19 Crisis
A Case of Capitalism’s Dialectic of Failure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12161483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Costas Panayotakis (0000-0003-1869-2861, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-386 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking Marxism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-5696 • E-ISSN: 1475-8059 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08935696.2022.2111955 |
| OpenAlex | W4312728057 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Acknowledging the multiple ways capitalism fails humanity and the planet, regularly triggering anticapitalist resistance, this essay employs the term “dialectic of failure” to examine how capitalist failures often boost profits and facilitate capitalism’s reproduction. This tendency for capitalism’s failures to create opportunities as well as risks for itself is analyzed with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. After first analyzing the pandemic as a capitalist failure, and while acknowledging the social-justice and anticapitalist struggles the pandemic has given rise to, the essay examines how the pandemic may also be facilitating capital accumulation and the reproduction of the prevailing socioeconomic order
Biology · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Dialectic · Disease · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Humanity · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Neoclassical economics · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Digital Education and Society · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |