Open AccessInterview with C.B. Macpherson on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Frank Cunningham
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
socialist studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-2821
pISSN - 1717-2616
DOI - 10.18740/ss27304
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , politics , covid-19 , pandemic , criminology , sociology , psychoanalysis , virtue , psychology , law , political science , medicine , virology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
In 1983 (on the Centenary of Karl Marx’s death) the Canadian Society for Socialist Studies enlisted me to interview C.B. Macpherson about the continuing significance of Marx’s theories, and it has occurred that I might interview him again now about the relevance of his own views to the social and political ramifications of the current epidemic. A problem is that Macpherson died a few years after the earlier interview. However, luckily and likely in virtue of a just published book by me on his political thought, Macpherson’s ghost has agreed to the interview that follows.