{"id":79316,"date":"2020-04-24T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/?post_type=video&p=79316"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:43:26","slug":"coronavirus-naomi-klein","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/video\/coronavirus-naomi-klein","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Klein: How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Naomi Klein, bestselling author of Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything,<\/em> and most recently, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for Green New Deal,<\/em> discusses ways the coronavirus crisis is already remaking our sense of the possible. In both good and bad ways. \u201cIn times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible,\u201d says Klein. \u201cBut whose ideas? Sensible, fair ones, designed to keep as many people as possible safe, secure, and healthy? Or predatory ideas, designed to further enrich the already unimaginably wealthy while leaving the most vulnerable further exposed?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As the Trump administration and a Republican Congress push for corporate bailouts and sneak in regulatory rollbacks, progressive activists are demanding a #PeoplesBailout and shoring up of the social safety net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe world economy is seizing up in the face of cascading shocks,\u201d Klein reminds us. \u201cIf there is one things history teaches us, it\u2019s that moments of shock are profoundly volatile. We either lose a whole lot of ground, get fleeced by elites and pay the price for decades. Or we win progressive victories that seemed impossible just a few weeks earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is no time to lose our nerve,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIn times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas suddenly become possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79317,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[4,5,266],"tags":[],"article-type":[250],"special-series":[],"class_list":["post-79316","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","category-economy","category-wealth-inequality","article-type-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n