Viral Socialism Now!
Class struggle will shape how this crisis plays out, and the world that’s created in its wake.
On March 22, Madonna posted a silly tweet with a video of her in a bathtub sprinkled with rose petals. The video had humble, no-makeup production qualities — and terrible class politics.
The Queen of Pop said, “[COVID-19] doesn’t care about how rich you are. . . . It’s the great equalizer, and what’s terrible about it is what’s great about it,” and then added, “Like I used to say at the end of ‘Human Nature’ every night, ‘If the ship goes down, we’re all going down together.’”
She was shouted down quickly, and she sheepishly deleted the post. Madonna was wrong about our equality in the face of pandemic, but was she wrong about our interdependence?
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