On the effects of Coronoavirus and lockdowns, etc. "Now we are being reminded that contemporary capitalism is fuelled, not by financial appropriation, but by labour." —Alex Callinicos, March 2020 The exploited are the creators of wealth.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51