Glad that you (and many other scientists) are now reading the WSWS. But you wouldn't be surprised by its content - "among the most truthful and reliable" - if you had been familiar with the writings of Trotsky, who ranks among the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. 1/
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Murdered by a Stalinist agent in 1940, Trotsky personified - as did Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg - the great socialist culture of the early 20th century that educated the working class, thus enabling it to act as a historically aware and politically conscious revolutionary force. 2/
The disastrous response to the pandemic and its tragic consequences cannot be explained apart from the absence of a mass socialist movement based on the working class, which would declare war on #Covid19 and the criminal corporate/finance-dictated policy of #herdimmunity. 3/
Trotsky wrote in 1938, on the eve of a World War that was marked by a descent into barbarism, "Without a socialist revolution, in the next historical period at that, a catastrophe threatens the whole culture of mankind." 4/
We are now living in that "next historical period" and the pandemic is not only a health crisis but also a warning of the catastrophe toward which capitalism, in what Trotsky described as its "death agony," is leading mankind. 5/
The WSWS is fighting to restore and rebuild socialism as the revolutionary political, cultural and intellectual movement of the international working class. And that is the only way the pandemic of capitalist profiteering, inequality and inhumanity can be ended. 6/
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