The Shock Doctrine: An Excerpt From the Introduction

October 28 2007 by ascetorix_ariz20 in BOOKS, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |3 Comments

BY NAOMI KLEIN Book Review: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan Books, September 18, 2007, 576 pages, $28 (US) [CROSSREFERENCE: Review of The Shock Doctrine by Susan Rosenthal] I met Jamar Perry in September 2005, at the big Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dinner was being doled out [...]

The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism

October 28 2007 by susanRosenthal in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, MIDDLE EAST AND/OR ISLAM, THE LEFT & PSEUDO LEFT |12 Comments

BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL Naomi Klein plowing through her research notes while writing The Shock Doctrine, an important book, but one that, as our reviewer shows, is marred in some significant respects. Klein, in the manner of so many liberals (“left-liberal” in her case)–is a far better diagnostician of the horrors and cynicism of capitalism than [...]

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