Publication: Strategies Against the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Hegemony
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2021
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Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power
Abstract
This article tries to explain why, if those countries that applied an elimination strategy in respect of the Covid-19 pandemic experienced fewer deaths and relatively fewer negative impacts on their economies, the ruling bourgeoisie of other countries did not promote similar measures. Additionally, it attempts to explain why people have not widely demanded that policies be implemented to eliminate the circulation of the virus. The article suggests that, in order to better understand these behaviours, it is necessary to frame them in the context of the profound crisis of hegemony in which most of Europe and America was already plunged before the arrival of the covid-19 virus.