Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 6 of 6

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.

Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world -- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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[MrKaniyaw]

Thanks Naomi Klein for this brulliant and excellent explanation of the Fraud of capitalism and the methods which are used (shocks) to sell it to people.

[tjaryma]

The question about Chile boils down to the question WHO is rich in Chile like WHO is rich in Russia. Milton may have been opposed to corporations colluding with governments but the fackt that they did colluded in free market was not a distortion of his theory but a natural consequence of his theory.

[DAngelo136]

@GarrettPetersen then why have wages stayed flat for 30 years but executive compensation almost tripled in the same time frame? I'd say that's bad Garrett. What is your problem with collective bargaining? You would have an individual negotiate against orgainized capital (corporation) which would be a grossly uneven playing field against workers. Do workers in Indonesia have an equal footing in negotiating with Nike?

[MebAbSebseb]

Naomi, I love you. I wish we had more common sense people like you

[Stormaz100]

Wow, the part about Canada and its debt ceiling created crisis in 1993 is totally deja vu in the US right now! We are in deep trouble in the US!

[hardingtess]

It wasn't free trade law that bankrupted our industrial base it was the morally bankrupted CEOs and stockholders of American corporations who jumped at the chance to allow products to be manufactured in countries where labor is cheap, there is no OSHA or EPA, there are no health benefits or pensions. Those jobs will return here once the rightwing has disembowled all of the regulations and destroyed the last unions and Americans are willing to work for next to nothing.

[MARGARELON]

@tjaryma Corporations can only collud with governments if governments have the power to make economic decisions.

[reptilespantoso]

@MrKaniyaw NO IT IS NOT CAPITALISM: IT'S CORPORATISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

With "socialising" the losses - putting these on the public balance sheet is proof. In a REAL capitalism, there would be equal opportunity for everyone, not banks being bailed out, and the public paying for it in "austerity".

You've just fallen into the "austerity trap"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GarrettPetersen]

@Wraith23 In Naomi's mind, everyone in the world is in the middle class, and so when unionized middle-class labourers benefit at the expense of the very rich and the very poor, everyone benefits.

Take minimum wage laws. These laws prevent low skilled workers from working so that labour unions can bid up their wages without the threat of competition. In turn, business owners cannot benefit from the cheap labour offered by low skilled workers. Good or bad, Naomi?

[marsaxod]

@tjaryma Jewish criminal mafia is rich in Chile and Russia

[icygood101]

@xmoroseguyx but it is good information, seeing the context and basis behind her explanation of these events.

[icygood101]

@eathis12 That's not even what she's talking about. When did she say "shock therapy"? Did you listen to the lecture videos? You are blindly assuming things; she's talking about the predatory deregulation, privatization, and diminishing of social programs and services proscribed by far-right capitalists.