**Disaster Communism** is a concept used to describe how after disasters
(ie earthquakes, bombing of cities, storms, tsunamis, disease outbreaks,
fires, , average people become incredibly altruistic,
[cooperative](Cooperation "wikilink") and

## Historical Examples

### 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

### 1945 Nuclear Bombings of Japan

### 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

### 2005 Hurricane Katrina

### 2012 Hurricane Sandy

### 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic

## Analysis

Disaster communism is frequently presented as a counter to the idea that
people naturally greedy, competitive, violent and lack care for others.

## See Also

  - [Disaster Capitalism](Disaster_Capitalism "wikilink")