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COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
30 Mar 2020
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Can the corporate state hold, “or will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass ‘distancing’ from the authority of the state?” asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro. “We might be approaching a crisis of that magnitude, a point at which the old cannot hold, but we are not certain what comes next.” 

Crisis of Capitalism

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