Philippe De Leener is a professor at the Centre for Development Studies at UCLouvain, specialising in economics, political science and the sociology of change in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. He is also Chairman of Inter-Mondes and Co-Chairman of the social economy federation SAW-B asbl (Solidarité des alternatives wallonnes et bruxelloises). He answers Devlop's questions.
LC: How do you see the Covid-19 crisis?
Philippe De Leener: I think it's important, first and foremost, to place the current crisis in a broader context: the pandemic is the signature of an impasse affecting the global economy. Covid represents one of the first contemporary manifestations of a much deeper crisis: that of capitalist systems of accumulation. If we do not analyse the pandemic in this context, we cannot understand it.
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