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The World Bank has sounded the alarm, but the forces of “centrism” — beholden to billionaires and the politics of austerity — refuse to pivot away from the neoliberal catastrophe, writes Vijay Prashad.
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order.