MORE
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine
4.23 · Rating details · 42,196 ratings · 3,022 reviews
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
INTRODUCTION
BLANK IS BEAUTIFUL
THREE DECADES OF ERASING AND
REMAKING THE WORLD
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with
violence. And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had cor-
rupted its ways upon the earth. And God said to Noah, “I have deter-
mined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence be-
cause of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.”
—Genesis 6:11 (NRSV)
Shock and Awe are actions that create fears, dangers, and destruction
that are incomprehensible to the people at large, specific elements/
sectors of the threat society, or the leadership. Nature in the form of
tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, uncontrolled fires, famine,
and disease can engender Shock and Awe.
—Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, the military doctrine
for the U.S. war on Iraq¹
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355640/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
https://www.scribd.com/read/182528502/The-Shock-Doctrine-The-Rise-of-Disaster-Capitalism
