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Journal of the Plague Years 2021
Late October in Plague Island
“The state, then, is by no means a power forced on society from outside; neither is it the “realization of the ethical idea,” “the image and the realization of reason,” as Hegel maintains. It is simply a product of society at a certain stage of evolution. It is the confession that this society has become hopelessly divided against itself, has entangled itself in irreconcilable contradictions which it is powerless to banish.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
So this week an English MP is stabbed — multiple times — to death during his attendance at a meeting within his local constituency. He was a well-respected man and no doubt well-loved by his family and friends. This was terrible and was a crime. The perpetrator was apprehended and will face the law. But it was not tragic.
I will tell you exactly what is tragic and it is not that a single MP has been murdered this October. It is the continuing high level of confirmed cases of Covid 19 each day — 50,000 yesterday — and the deaths which have been, 400, in the last 3 days alone. England has the highest level of Covid in Europe and the Tory regime under Boris Johnson refuses to implement any of the successful Covid reduction measures already proven. The British Medical Association has…
