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“When confronted with the reality of such a catastrophe [COVID’s origin in profit-driven factory farming+ecological destruction] critics who hold to the fundamental inalienability of capitalism will always turn their attention instead to the state, which is [the] supposed nexus of representation for ‘the public.’ […] why do people end up talking about the state when they set out to talk about the plague?”

Honestly, this is essential reading.

This book is amazing, genuinely. Such presient analysis, absolutely fantastic observations of the connection between capitalist agriculture/animal husbandry (culminating in the factory farm) with the spread of disease by zoonotic transmission. Microbiological Marxism.

Just finished the first eponymous essay.