Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99%

Two battlegrounds of justice had taken shape in the decade preceding the Covid-19 pandemic that beset the world in the spring of 2020. On the one hand, progressive forces were mobilising under the banner of fighting inequality. On the other hand, long-standing ecological concerns have acquired a novel urgency. Although environmental protection and social justice are both valiant creeds of progressive politics, they have stood in long-lasting conflict due to their contrasting relationship to economic growth. In order to effectively reconcile social and environmental justice, the post-pandemic agenda of progressive politics needs to shifts its focus from fighting inequality through growth-and-redistribution to fighting precarity.