From the prologue of on Necrocapitalism, a virus is haunting the globe, one of

pandemic proportions, whose threat has necessitated unprecedented measures to

forestall death and violence worse than the present crisis. But the cruelty,

violence, and depredations that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic aren't

merely detritus and the wake of its spread, they characterize the Necrocapitalism

of this conjuncture. From its beginning to its current senile form,

capitalism has presided over a massive graveyard. The slavery and genocide that

marked its bloody emergence, the work houses filled with bodies laboring to death

and streets glutted with the starving poor, these have persisted through the

present, combining with exterminatory wars and environmental devastation. And

then, beyond that, two world wars. The first a squabble between imperialist

nations who forced their poor to fight entrenches for the interests of the

rich, the second caused by the most reactionary form that capitalism can take,

fascism. There have been many other since then, all waged upon the oppressed

nations and the global periphery in the interest of capitalist hegemony and

accumulation. Half of Korea burned to the ground. Vietnam was invaded and brutalized

in an attempt to prevent its national self-determination. Multiple overt and

covert wars, too many to detail here, where regimes were overthrown,

dictators friendly to capitalism installed, and all resistance murdered and

disappeared. Assassinated, mass murdered, hunted down like dogs, starved and

tortured, thrown out of helicopters, and written out of official history. For

others among the colonized and dispossessed, some combination of apartheid,

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