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onecaliberal

(33,089 posts) Fri May 10, 2024, 12:50 PM May 10

Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein) If you have not read it. You need to. [View all]

What right-wing governments are doing is manufacturing crisis and creating a pretext for even greater austerity. The shredding of the safety net, the erosion of institutional expertise, the destruction of natural capital: it's all part of a systematic effort to privatise what is left of commons and turn us all into serfs dependent on hostile overlords. This is the shock doctrine. Make things bad intentionally and then say There Is No Alternative
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Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein) If you have not read it. You need to. [View all] onecaliberal May 10 OP

Read it MOMFUDSKI May 10 #1

Same but so many things in that book were quite prescient. onecaliberal May 10 #2

k&r alwaysinasnit May 10 #3

agree, it is one ofTHE most important books for understanding the world ProfessorPlum May 10 #4

Also suggesting - Minority Rule JustAnotherGen May 10 #5

She points out that it's not only RW govt's. It's capitalism. n/t Marcus IM May 10 #6

Yes! onecaliberal May 10 #8

r mdmc May 11 #18

I never forgot... 2naSalit May 10 #7

I never forgot either. But, I'm going to read again. onecaliberal May 10 #9

Wikipedia entry - worth a read (better than Cliff Notes) erronis May 10 #10

Thank you PatSeg May 10 #12

Thanks for that. Nice list of examples there. They need to update the list with Oct. 7 Hamas attack + RandomNumbers May 11 #17

The most chilling aspect of the book is mentioned in the OP... Wounded Bear May 10 #11

And nowhere is this more true than in Argentina - long a 'canary in the coal mine' for neo-con nation wreckers peppertree May 10 #15

They say, "never let a good crisis go to waste." Haggard Celine May 10 #16

Read it when it came out. Highly recommend. Auggie May 10 #13

It's been their business model for some time. surfered May 10 #14