Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 3 of 6

when I think about what "freedom" means to unimaginative little pissants such as yourself-yes, my hands shake, my blood boils, my heart hurts.
Speaking of funny-you're not...and you thought Naomi Klein was boring.

That's funny. Did you vomit and shake when you had to type "Freedom"?

yea. you really schooled me. That "Bathroom Trivia for Freedom Fighters" book was well worth the ten bucks in the walmart impulse buy bin. Bravo.

Useful idiot is a term the communists used to describe intellectuals, academics, politicians, and other fools who would parrot the Party Line for them and praise the glories of communism in their native countries.

Even the commies derided such people for being taken in by the ideological propaganda masking raw power.

See? Now you've learned something for today.

I now decree you youtubes "useless moron"

Yes, she's an incredible incarnation of Stalin's "useful idiot".

This woman is incredible. I'm sorry that you can't see that. Must be all that bullshit in your ears.

Wake me up when this woman presents an actual argument for central planning, or whatever the hell it is she advocates.

As far as I can tell, she is the quintessential anti-intellectual blabbermouth. The obsession with Milton Friedman only highlights the freakish nature of her diatribes against liberty.

I guess in her Utopia, Barney Frank would be planning production or what? Does she ever do anything than obsess over Friedman and denounce markets? I'm waiting for the punchline.

She's taking Friedman out of context. What he meant was that economic crises (such as the Great Depression, other serious recessions, etc.) cause people to question the status quo and usually look for alternatives. Klein claims that he wanted to cause crises that would tip the scale in his favor - make people want to enact his policy recommendations. He never supported anything like what Klein is implying.

One of funniest part of the book is where Klein blames the Tianamen massacre on capitalism and the free market.

I mean does she even understand that those protesters were fighting for political and economic freedom?