Thankfully, the end of the 80s turned out to be a time of great political change in the right direction with the collapse of the iron curtain and the fall of the Berlin wall. While it was good that the evils of communism fell in the East, it created a false narrative that all forms of capitalism were equally good because none were as bad as the system that so radically failed in the former Soviet Union. Similarly socialism appeared to become forever linked with communism. While I fully agree there is a form of capitalism that is superior to socialism, that form has been subsumed by an extreme version of neo-liberal capitalism which is not sustainable for the remainder of this century.

Let’s hope this terrible virus helps us to make the urgent corrections that are required to our capitalist economies for the sake of the vast majority of adults on this planet and their children.