This past year we have experienced a pandemic that revealed to even the most reluctant observer of global affairs that the capitalist neoliberal system ensnares us all.<\/p>\n
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The pandemic intensified known fractures and revealed how truly fragile it turns out the global capitalist system really is.<\/p>\n
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Production in industrial countries stumbled as workshops and factories in China supplying component parts to Western industries shut down due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n
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And as China began to recover and its factories reopened, there was a global decline in demand for goods leaving parts from reopened factories stacked up in ports throughout Asia.<\/p>\n
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Global supply chains ground to a halt.<\/p>\n
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People everywhere began imagining what a new society and economy would look like as everything was going to change, and the promise of a new beginning filled both progressive and conservative imaginaries.<\/p>\n
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