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Coronavirus economic impact could lead to class warfare, revolutions in the West


Afshin Rattansi speaks with the former director of the World Economic Forum, Frank-Jurgen Richter. 

Richter discusses the impact coronavirus will have on the European Union’s unity, the possibility of class warfare and revolutions in the West comparable to Russia in 1917 and France in 1789, anti-establishment sentiment as a result of globalisation, how unfettered capitalism has created the conditions for mass social unrest amid COVID-19, the possibility of something worse than the Great Depression as the US-China rivalry heats up between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.


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