RESUMEN: This research aims at investigating what role capitalism, in its ideal-typical logic, plays in times of
pandemic crisis. The research hypothesis consists in abandoning a one-sided idea of capitalism, which
is the dominant one in the neoliberal version, to recover, instead, that of “creative destruction”, as the
most constitutive logic of the phenomenon from its origins and also the most promising for
scientifically explaining the relationship between capitalism and pandemics. Attempts will be made to
demonstrate the scientific inconsistency of a reading that rigidly and dogmatically sets antithetical
interpretations of capitalism against each other, and to construct, instead, one that combines the
possibility of divergences. Finally, the question will arise as to what implications can be drawn from
this incidence of the logic of creative destruction in capitalism and whether this is such as to impose
deterministic results, as well as supposedly at the level of common sense or generalization, or whether
there is still room for manoeuvre and guidance by science and politics in particular. Palabras clave: capitalism; pandemic; creative destruction; damage-remedy logic; innovation.
