Rob Wallace and Alex Liebman examine the grim realities of the Covid-19 pandemic today, and its structural causes in the capitalist destruction of both the natural world, and the commons of public health.
Rob and Alex wrote the essay Covid-19 and the Circuits of Capital with Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace for Monthly Review.
Alex Liebman is a PhD student in human geography at Rutgers University, with a MSc in agronomy from the University of Minnesota.
Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist who has consulted with the Food and Agriculture Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.