Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization

  • Fabrício Belsoff International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Abstract

In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in The Twenty-First Century, Andreas Malm carries the thesis that climate change interlaces with zoonotic spillovers in a self-perpetuating system that is likely to deliver new pandemics, constituting our current situation as a 'chronic emergency.' In this sense, the author defends the idea that state-led emergency measures must be taken against the mechanism of 'parasitic capital' on a global scale and in a synchronic manner, drawing from the ecological lessons of 'war communism.'

Published
2021-04-30
How to Cite
Belsoff, Fabrício. 2021. “Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization”. KULT_online, no. 63 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1092.
Section
KULT_reviews