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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation.
Authoritarian measures such as lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the enforced wearing of facemasks, have led to a biopolitical disenfranchisement of human rights and the encroachment of state and corporate directives onto private lives. By supporting these measures, the left has lost sight of its traditional critique of capital, the state, and class society and has instead reinforced existing power structures in the name of saving lives'. In doing so, the left has contributed to widespread suffering, especially among the vulnerable' groups in society the measures claimed to protect, particularly children, the elderly, and the poor.
COVID-19 and the Left explores why the left has departed from its self-understanding as a critical force against state power, unfettered capital accumulation, the digital transformation, biopolit
