Pandemic Disease or Capitalist cure

"With virus cases soaring, closed hospitals become a precious source of beds"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-virus-cases-soaring-closed-hospitals-become-a-precious-source-of-beds/2020/03/27/3a906b62-6e17-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html

Yet our local hospitals are opening outdoor tents to put us in, instead of atoning for their crime resulting from gross negligence, greed and lack of preparation for inevitable epidemics, aging and growth of the population. This does not factor in the growth of cosmetic and elective services which has crowded out vital and necessary care. While psychotherapy sessions have been cutback, liposuction surgeries and psycho pharmacy treatment have soared. The country remains addicted to its morbid obesity epidemic. Only now a new and far more dangerous addiction has been added, that of prescription psychotropic drugs.

This is not a coincidence, the maintenance of the working population in a weaken physical and mental condition is an important part of the class repression and exploitation of the working class.

Hollywood, the propaganda wing of the capitalist class, has proven to be an Oracle of our future, with its "Endgame" and many zombie uprising movies. They can predict the future because they are working hard to make their deadly predictions come to life.

This pandemic is a perfect cover for the greatest transfer of wealth in history from workers all over the World to the 0.01%. The devaluation of the American dollar, resulting from the trillions of dollars being created out of the thin air and showered on the plutocrats affect the entire planet. More than half of all American dollars is held overseas. The sanctions enforced by America's military juggernaut and its 1000 bases around the World ensures that no one abandons the American dollar nor significantly raise the prices of locally produced commodities. Even a great power like China is being held hostage to the US, by being forced to hold over trillion dollars in US government bonds in order to have the privilege of selling its products in the US market. Japan is in exactly the same position.

While trillions of taxpayers dollars have been given to the plutocrats. They have cut off our ability to pay our bills, i.e. work, forcing us to sell assets, that have taken generations to accumulate, at bargain basement prices to them. This is the essence of this "rescue" package. This $1,200 one time return of our own taxpayer generated money, will do nothing but assure that some of the bills get paid. No doubt a comfort to our creditors. But it will do nothing to avert the bankruptcy of millions.

This is slightly more generous than Obama's rescue of the banks, who gave us nothing. However the bankruptcies then resulted in capitalists confiscating over 4 million homes, many of which were consequently rented right back to the original owners. The 2, 3 or 4 jobbed worker became the common phenomena and the foundation for the consequent capitalist boom or orgy depending on your class prospective.

Only today's crisis cannot be resolved by adding more hours to our collective work week. Each additional hour is increasingly worthless, as a function of the growth of labor substituting capital or automation . Thus the falling rate of profit paradox. Inequality has made this problem even worse, as the plutocrats have ever more difficulty to consume the vast sums they have robbed from the working class. However the essential problem lies in contradiction between the productivity of capital and the value system which determines what is profitable.

Capitalism is a value system which measures profit only in terms of labor surplus exploited. However automation is making labor irrelevant. So while in the midst of vast wealth being created by machines of all kinds, led by computers, trade has become impossible. Capitalism is divided between the world of demand and that of supply. Demand is a function of money and the division of money between classes with conflicting interests. While supply is strictly the realm of machines, resources and knowledge embedded in skilled workers, technocrats, technicians and scientists. However this human element is being eliminated. This has had the effect of destroying demand. Capital produced must be sold in order to realize the profit exploited. But if the labor content of this transaction falls, the rate profit cannot help but also fall. Capitalists only produce to sell, if they cannot profit by their selling they will stop selling. This creates a death cycle out of which it cannot escape. The worthless labor cannot buy what is being produced. Capitalists cannot consume all that is being produced. And yet the masses of workers still exist and must be placated.

What are we to do what all of these excess and increasingly desperate workers. World Wars in the nuclear age is dangerous. But an epidemic which culls the weakest among the working class i.e. the aged would be most convenient, to buy a little more time in which to design a "final solution" for what remains of the Working class, when the economy is entirely automated. This epidemic need not be one by design. it is enough to deliberately and criminally foul up the handling of this disaster, as well as the neglence to prepared the way for one. The Spanish flu of 1917, (which did not start in Spain but in the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918), was the first pandemic which was criminal mismanaged. Although the technology to design a virus and corresponding vaccine has existed for a long time now.

Note that reformists have suggested a guaranteed unearned minimum monthly income check to be delivered to all workers irrespective of status to resolve this contradiction between demand and supply and thus increase the rate of profit. However capitalists point out the danger to themselves if this program was implemented. Once started, how was it to be limited to the miniscule sums currently being discussed. The supply side of the economy will eventually be fully automated. Workers having the minimum requirements of surviving will certainly be in a position to demand a greater share of the pie. Perhaps questioning the need for capitalist class entirely. This reform is a "Pandora Box", that must remain closed at all costs for capitalists. My main concern with this reform is that it will be relegated to working classes in Imperial countries paid for by workers in neocolonies.