WSWS (2022-01-08). Capitalism's perpetual pandemic. wsws.org The US government and media are demanding that COVID-19 become the "new normal," legitimizing mass death in perpetuity.

WSWS (2022-01-08). Squid Game and the survival drama genre. wsws.org While Squid Game presents a unique twist on the effort to represent capitalism as a fight to the death, it is only the most recent example of an international genre that began in the US in the 1970s.