Özet:

The apparent lack of effectiveness in contemporary states’ fight against coronavirus show their unpreparedness to the impending ecological crisis. The states failed to set up containment mechanisms against the rapid dissemination of coronavirus and were unable to prevent the virus’ mortal impacts for more than a year. Somehow, capitalist states implement certain policies to struggle against coronavirus thereby extending their ordinary limits of capitalist logic during the process. It has been demonstrated that the capitalist states do not act against ecological crises in the same way that they fight against coronavirus. Under the conditions of ecological crises, providing that capitalism, state, human, and nature build an intricate interrelationship; characteristics and reasons became a remarkable issue. Thus, this article puts forward three arguments in order to come up with possible answers to this question. First, the coronavirus crisis is not only a health crisis, but also an ecological one and it is a states’ political choice to separate these two crises. Secondly, the health crisis concept led states to consolidate their political capacities through discourses used as a political instrument. Finally, when the political choice of the state is to control Coronavirus, it contributes to the state’s and capitalist system’s persistence by favouring social class alliances. But solving ecological problems poses a greater challenge to capitalism.

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