Capitalism in the time of cholera
Lessons for socialists in the outbreaks of nineteenth century London.
Steven Hayward at Power Line blog has come across my latest in Jacobin — and concluded, evidently, that I think “that capitalism is responsible for the coronavirus”. This is neither my view nor what I wrote on the matter, but I think the mistake is understandable. These days, popular socialist writing often spends a lot of time talking about social ills…