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Naomi Klein received way more than her 15 minutes by penning No Logo, the classic which kicked the anti-corporate movement into high gear. Most people who choked on tear gas while protesting the IMF or WTO did so clutching a copy of her book.
Last year she followed up with "The Shock Doctrine".
In this new tome the intrepid Montrealer plays connect-the-dots to show a thread running through Milton Friedman's Chicago School economics, Project MKUltra, and the Free Market makeovers of such countries as Chile, Indonesia, Poland, China, South Africa, Russia, and others.
The picture she paints is a depressing one where people are robbed, tortured, and even slaughtered to grant even more riches to a handful of people who form a global financial elite.
The premise is that a series of shocks - whether physical, political or economic - can be used to soften up the masses to such a point to where they no longer are even able to protest their mistreatment, even in the staunchest democracies, let alone stand against the Imperial tide.
It speaks of a return to a feudal society under the banner of "Democracy".
I am only half way through the book which has thus far been a case by case look at how Chicago School "Shock Treatment" has transformed countries which were leaning towards nationalism for the betterment of their people. It's been one of those, "Read a chapter, get blood boiling, fume for a few days, repeat..." reads.
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