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Albert Einstein's classic essay, "Why Socialism?," originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is currently discussing a proposal by India and South Africa calling for a waiver of certain rules on intellectual property rights to allow poor countries to produce COVID-19 vaccines.
@CDN_Dimension
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Over the past week comedian Jimmy Dore has single-handedly exposed a collection of self-styled leaders of progressive media as imperialist hacks joined at the hip with the Democratic Party and NATO.
@MintPressNews
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John Pilger: While "journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed" in recent years. Dissent "has regressed to a metaphoric underground as liberal capitalism moves towards a form of corporate dictatorship."
@medialens
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An American man with ties to Amnesty International and key Hong Kong separatist figures has been posing online as a Hong Kong native named Kong Tsung-gan.
@TheGrayzoneNews
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Excellent article from
@mision_verdad
chronicling the financial warfare waged by the US against Venezuela since 2015—of course, the economic sabotage & political manipulation has not ceased since Chavéz was elected in 1999. Trans. by Internationalist 360°.
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Africa can’t demonstrate independence and power because the entire continent has a giant U.S. military boot on its neck.
@blkagendareport
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“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.”
The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
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“The leaked report mentions that indefinite growth must be renounced. Since radical transition is required, the key question is how can a shift away from models of perpetual growth be understood as a benefit and not merely relinquishment?”
@ctxt_es
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For those who are interested in an Indonesian perspective on
#valuechains
(we should all be!) and who also know
#Indonesian
...
Thank you very much to Sawyer Martin French, and the Indonesian publication, "The Suryakanta", for this review:
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Congratulations to Gerald Horne, winner of the American Book Award!
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The National Lawyers Guild International calls for the immediate release of Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab, imprisoned in a Miami federal prison by the United States in a violation of diplomatic norms and protections. – (NLG)
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Our special July–August issue on imperialism in the Indo-Pacific super-region is out now. Get yours today!
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Historian and author Piero Gleijeses discusses the history of Cuban foreign policy and how the U.S. has tried to vindictively punish the small island nation for resisting its global hegemony.
@TheGrayzoneNews
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The September 2023 issue is out now! Get yours today!
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In his Dialectical Materialism, Henri Lefebvre uses Marx’s Capital and Engels’s Dialectics of Nature to say that “the laws of human reality cannot be entirely different from the laws of nature.”
@marxmidwestern
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In recent years, “racial capitalism” has ascended across the humanities and social sciences. Charisse Burden-Stelly lays out theoretical notes on how to understand this conceptual framework.
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It's no joke—our April issue is out today! Get yours now!
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Radical Reviewer Reviews The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
@ReviewerRadical
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Wonderful short piece by Gramsci for Marx centenary "Marx did not write a nice little doctrine, he is not a Messiah who left a string of parables laden with categorical imperatives, with absolute, unquestionable norms beyond the categories of time & space"
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The propaganda surrounding COVID-19 and China’s response is only the latest escalation in a long term geopolitical strategy by U.S. imperialism to destroy it.
@qiaocollective
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The connective thread that ties together
#Haiti
#Cuba
and
#SouthAfrica
....
LISTEN to Horne with Ruff on A Public Afffair:
#remittances
#Covid
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In this month’s “Notes from the Editors,” the editors put forward the objectives for a contemporary socialist disarmament strategy.
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On the evening of July 11, tens of thousands of Cubans rallied across Cuba to defend their revolutionary process. Since that Sunday evening, Cuba has been calm. Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad
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Cuba has successfully vaccinated around 60% of its population with its own vaccines despite numerous challenges due to the decades long U.S. embargo.
@peoplesdispatch
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As the Pentagon gains approval for another record-breaking budget, the editors examine a perennial question: Why does the U.S. oligarchy need such an outsized military machine in the modern era? The answer is found in the current era of naked imperialism.
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John Bellamy Foster introduces this month's special issue of Monthly Review, "China 2020."
All signs are pointing to another period of hegemonic struggle over the world economy, this time between the United States and China.
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@joshruebner
A great many years ago, we published the English version of "The Arabs in Israel" on the eve of '67, by Sabri Jiryis. It was an important book. We hope that we have come a long long way since then! Today, it would have a different title, perhaps simply "Palestinians of '48"
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The main purpose of "Washington's Bullets" says
@VijayPrashad
, 'was to “contain the tidal wave that swept from the October Revolution of 1917 and the many waves that whipped around the world to form the anti-colonial movement.” Reviewed
@CovertActionMag
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Increasing numbers of left-wing activists around the world are turning to Vincent Bevins's "The Jakarta Method" to learn more about the atrocities committed by the United States against peoples’ struggles for the right to self-determination.
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The film 'Samir Amin: The organic intellectual' chronicles "the audacious struggles of this most outstanding intellectual of the South." Among the topics Amin covers are development, imperialism & worker resistance Full film is available to watch for free.
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Our special double issue on racial capitalism is now out!
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The Venezuelan government has announced a new social program focused on fighting poverty and inequality, which will be supported by China’s International Poverty Reduction Center.
@venanalysis
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Impressive piece by Thierry Drapeau on Marx's anti-colonialism. "Through his relationship with the Chartist radical and labor poet Ernest Jones, Karl Marx came to realize the necessity of opposing slavery & colonialism in ending capitalism."
@EuropeSSF
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"'Why does Marx matter today?' is the question posed by British journalist and filmmaker Paul Mason in five short films produced by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (
@rosaluxstiftung
) to commemorate Karl Marx’s 200th birthday."
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JOIN, Sunday! MR Conversations: How to Read Marx’s ‘Capital,’ with Michael Heinrich, Nathan Tankus and the hosts of ‘Reel Abstractions’
TO REGISTER:
TO READ AN EXCERPT:
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The second group of a Cuban medical brigade to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic traveled to Mexico City on Thursday.
@PresnaLatina_cu
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Max Blumenthal notes one of many ironies of Democrats' strategy of blaming Russia for their loss to Trump: Lawmakers are denying "the very existence of Ukraine’s far-right plague in order to turn the heat up on Moscow." From
@grayzoneproject
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This is a superb essay on Antonio Gramsci, which appeared in the Winter 2017 issue of Marxist Left Review—it certainly deserves more circulation so we hope our readers find the piece interesting.
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In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism.
@tri_continental
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Just out!
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This article by As’ad AbuKhalil (
@asadabukhalil
) originally appeared 3 months ago but are republishing it again now because we think it remains the best analysis available online about the present situation in Afghanistan.
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There’s one asshole in the room who always starts shit. Any time any shit has started he’s always been involved. And hardly anyone’s even looking at him thinking, “I wonder if that shit-starting guy has anything to do with this?”
@caitoz
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Yesterday in
#latecapitalism
: Michael Heinrich's "How to Read Marx's 'Capital'" trends at
#1
on Amazon. Is there hope?
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Two hundred years since his birth, Frederick Engels can be seen as one of the foundational ecological thinkers of modern times.
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"In the 150-article sample, Russia was described as an oligarchy in 89, while Ukraine was labeled as such in 35.… In contrast, only 1% of articles mentioned the U.S. in connection with oligarchs."
@FAIRmediawatch
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In total, U.S. commandos conducted 23 clandestine proxy wars across the world at a total cost of $310 million between 2017 and 2020, according to documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
@M_Star_Online
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More than twenty years after the publication of Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000), author John Bellamy Foster and interviewer Roberto Andrés discuss the roots of Marx's ecological thought, from the Greek atomists to the Enlightenment to Malthus.
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In his first presidential visit to the Pentagon yesterday, Joe Biden announced the creation of an anti-China task force.
@pslweb
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"How is it,” Helena Sheehan asks, “that classical Marxist authors were able to address such a stunning array of issues”? The answer can be found, she writes, is in the totality of their intellectual efforts.
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In this review of 'Migration as Economic Imperialism,' Torkil Lauesen illuminates the links between migration of labor and theories of unequal exchange. These connections, Lauesen writes, relate to transfer of labor power from the periphery to the core.
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The demand for the €1 stamp, using Irish artist
@jimfitzpatrick
image of the revolutionary icon, as “unprecedented”
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Fifty-six years after the assassination of Malcolm X, new details from a former New York Police Department officer’s deathbed confession has further implicated the NYPD and FBI in the killing.
@pslweb
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"'After 1973, Marini’s theory of superexploitation “became one of the most polemical issues in the social sciences in Latin America'...critics often quoted Marini out of context..." -- Steve Ellner, Latin American Research Review
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The arrest of Newsclick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, Sam Popowich writes, is a chilling development in Narendra Modi’s campaign of repression against free media as he attempts to gain popular legitimacy for his Hindutva program .
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New this week! We are delighted to publish this essay from Samir Amin, which was the last sent to us by Amin before his death. He requested that we delay publication until it had first appeared in Sociološki pregled, which has now occurred.
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October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab was kidnapped for the second time, first by Cabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., in flagrant violation of international law.
@COHAofficial
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In the film Samir Amin discusses the political economy of development, capitalism and imperialism, as well as the resistance of workers and peoples. – Samir Amin
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Andy Higginbottom analyzes the influence of Ruy Mauro Marini on dependency theory and the concept of superexploitation. Marini, he explains, carried Marx’s legacy forward—but there is still work to be done in the twenty-first century.
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The December issue of Monthly Review is out now! Get your copy here:
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Sit Tsui, He Zhixiong, and Yan Xiaohui on the legacies of definancialization in China and how the country's people-centered governance philosophy can protect the lives and health of the people while defending people’s property under collective ownership.
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Winstanley believed “private ownership of land, wage-labour and buying or selling would all be banned” + naively believed that Oliver Cromwell, leader of the parliamentary forces against King Charles I, would fight for common rights....
@socialistworker
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Impressive investigation of the blackouts in
#Venezuela
: "Marco Rubio and Juan Guaidó, clearly pushing the same narrative, published fake news about alleged newborn casualties at the University Hospital of Maracaibo, Zulia & other hospitals"
@Mision_Verdad
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Samir Amin was far from an "academic" intellectual: he "was a revolutionary Marxist; he was a thinker, in the long line of thinkers that dared to give their life to the struggle for socialism & national liberation."
@liberationschool
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"The anti-imperialist struggle had to be simultaneously anti-capitalist."
-Orlando Hill, on Dependency Theory and Ruy Mauro Marini, for 'Counterfire'
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Releasing next month, a new, expanded edition of Amilcar Cabral’s speeches and writings, “Return to the Source,” gives us concrete examples of decolonial praxis and insists on situating revolutionary theory in investigations of local material conditions.
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Mauricio Betancourt reviews "The Last Years of Karl Marx," finding within it a portrait of a man who, despite personal tragedy and failing health, remained a vigorous intellectual and scholar through the end of his life.
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“Much academic debate about the origin of capitalism has actually been about the origin of capitalists. Were they originally aristocrats, or gentry, or merchants, or successful farmers?
Less attention has been paid to….Who did the actual work?"
–Ian Angus
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Left anti-communism in the UK: "A sober analysis of the positions of Owen Jones & Paul Mason on a wide range of issues shows that they are in fact distinctly un-radical, frequently opportunist in nature, & openly reactionary & imperialist"—by
@Louis_Allday
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Based on a handful of think tank reports and witness testimonies, Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
@qiaocollective
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Bolivia pays tribute to Che on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. From
@telesurenglish
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We thought this was a wonderful short piece by Branko Milanovic on Marx. From Milanovic's blog, Global Inequality.
@BrankoMilan
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"It is fair to say that the Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas. (It) was also a victory for all working class people"
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Transcript of Aaron Maté's recent episode from the
@Grayzoneproject
show, Pushback, discussing the failure of Democrats even to mention—let alone criticize—Trump's brutal embargo on
#Venezuela
.
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"....The U.S.alone has invaded Latin American countries 96 times, and that total doesn’t include the coups it has sponsored and the governments it has decisively undermined."
- Pete Dolack, on Marini's "The Dialectics of Dependency," just translated by MRP
@NatCounterPunch
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Mumia Abu Jamal, has high praise for historian Robin D.G. Kelly’s book, Hammer & Hoe. “Who knew that there were hundreds, possibly thousands of Black communists organizing in Alabama during the 1930s?” Abu Jamal asked. From
@blkagendareport
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Twenty left publishers from around the world release a joint edition including two essential texts by Che Guevara on the fifty-third anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bolivia.
@tri_continental
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Jason Hickel: "rising global inequality is driven in large part by power imbalances in the global economy, in that rich countries have disproportionate influence when it comes to setting the rules of international trade and finance."
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On Saturday 30 July, just after 9 pm, thunderous explosions rocked central Donetsk. – Eva Bartlett
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Dmitri is a Ukrainian journalist and activist of the banned communist organization ‘Borotba’. – The International
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Founded in November 1983, then-CIA director William Casey was at the heart of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) creation. – Kit Klarenberg
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It is not at all strange that “the return of Marx”–the renewed interest in his ideas, particularly since the 2008 capitalist crisis–has been accompanied by an admittedly more modest return of Friedrich Engels.
@left_voice
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Remember when U.S. media was sneering at China while it scrambled to contain the virus and declaring it as proof of the superiority of liberal democracy.
@MintPressNews
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Hardly any theme in Karl Marx’s theoretical corpus has sparked as much interest as his theory of fetishism. While much ink has been spilled on the subject, Marx’s initial exploration of the term has rarely enjoyed critical attention—until now.
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The U.S. empire would like us to believe that Cuba is an authoritarian dictatorship, because it does not bow down to the laws of neoliberal “democracy.” – Calla Walsh / Multipolarista
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We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Modern Money Network on their monthly podcast, Money on the Left. We will be releasing transcripts along with each upcoming episode.
@moneyontheleft
@thepublicmoney
@maxseijo
@billysaas
@videotroph
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#Haiti
stood tall as the first
#independent
#Blackrepublic
campaigning on our behalf - Dr. Gerald Horne's comments during "African Liberation Day in the Americas," hosted by
@Blacks4Peace
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The struggle by Indian farmers against Pepsico and Monsanto is very important. This article provides an update on attempts to control seeds—the essence of monopolistic control by agribusiness giants. From
@newsclickin
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For Samir Amin’s anniversary on Sept 4, Global University for Sustainability invited Samir’s friends to reminisce their interactions with Samir and celebrate the very rich life that Samir lived. – Lau Kin Chi
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"People are furiously invested in distinguishing their country from the rest, & emphatically asserting that that country is the greatest; &, as a result of these emphatic assertions of greatness, feel in themselves a deep sense of personal pride."
@mexieYT
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The contemporary political economy of the People’s Republic of China, the nature of the Chinese system, has been the subject of much discussion and debate in mainstream academic, media, and political circles, as well as on the left.
@KenHammond
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What is your favorite Monthly Review Press book of all time?
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On January 20, 1973–48 years ago today–Cabral was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins just months before the national liberation movement in which he played a central role won the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
@pslweb
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While China’s response to COVID-19 may have been the strongest in the world, China is not unique in handling the pandemic far better than the United States or European capitalist countries.
@pslweb
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