The capitalist swine at our door

Mike Davis, with a characteristic blend of systemic mediation, apocalyptic poetry and a plea for the necessity of socialism.



Or, how 'the Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the fecal mire of an industrial pigsty' reveals 'the planetary catastrophe of industrialized and ecologically unhinged livestock production', and how the 'Ponzified risk management' of capitalist disease control is no match for a planetary socialist rationality.