Friday, Sep 26, 2008

"You know the thesis of the Shock Doctrine is that you need a disaster to rationalize pushing throug

SOTT: Naomi Klein: The Bomb Has Yet to Detonate

Naomi Klein argues that by transferring Wall Street's gambling debt to Main Street (what she calls crybaby capitalism), the shock doctrine will come into play:
"They have moved the disaster from Wall Street to Main Street by accepting those debts.... But the bomb has yet to detonate. The bomb is the debt that has now been transferred to the taxpayers.

Posted by malct @ 11:36 AM (240 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. shipbuilder said...

Naomi tells it like it is.

Friday, September 26, 2008 12:50PM Report Comment
 

2. mark wadsworth said...

Nope.

What NK said was that evil capitalists use chaos as an opportunity to privatise everything (e.g. buy up Iraqi oil wells)

What has happened here is the reverse - Big Gummint has used chaos as an opportunity to nationalise things.

The only common thread is that either possibility leads to corporatism - i.e. an unholy union between Big Corporations and Big Gummint.

So there.

Friday, September 26, 2008 04:08PM Report Comment
 

3. shipbuilder said...

I think that's exactly what she said in the article, Mark.

Friday, September 26, 2008 05:21PM Report Comment
 

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