“The Shock Doctrine” or corporate warriors through the eyes of Naomi Klein
In her latest book, the author of the manifesto of the anti-corporate globalization tells us how to earn on hurricanes, why there were the Falkland Conflict and about a source of Donald Rumsfeld’s fotune.
The Shock Doctrine
Is the modern, corporate version of capitalism is the only legitimate economic system? Is this the best possible economic agendas, or whether there is a real alternative, which would allow not only the increasing enrichment selected - small - groups of society, but also enable the achievement of the entire rest of the population of such earnings that remained valid for a decent, quiet and, as far as happy life? Sentences are divided - is obvious. Politicians, economists, heads of major corporations and ordinary people are currently on-going dispute about how taxes should be whether - and how - customs barriers should be used, whether the state should interfere to certain areas of the economy, whether there are areas which can not be privatized, whether workers should be able to organize in trade unions … communities some countries choose one way of economic development, the population of other countries a different system - everything is in order until such a choice is an independent decision taken in a democratic, peaceful way by persons with a right to decide . Evil, leading in extreme cases to the torture and killings and civil wars, begins when supporters of one of the economic systems strength impose its doctrine to other people - even its resolute enemies. The strength - this is the antidemocratic, not counting with the local community and using the advantages: economic, cultural, or military. Such actions are described in the latest Naomi Klein’s book - “The Shock Doctrine”.
Cataclysm as a gift from the God
The author shows the way in which supporters of one of the many economic trends - so-called “Chicago School” - came to the position that they are in a position to dictate its conditions for a large part of the modern world. It describes how neocons - using natural disasters, social unrest, changes in regimes and wars - are trying to spread their doctrine on the area around the globe, introducing them not only in poor, developing countries in South America, Africa and Asia , but also in areas of the United States affected by natural disasters, where - for example - Hurricane Katrina has been used as a natural ally of corporate interests. Natural disaster, to destroy municipal buildings and public schools of New Orleans, helped the expansion of local construction companies and privatized the vast majority of local educational institutions. The heads of companies and representatives of municipalities - as described Klein - standing on the rubble of flooded homes, thanked God for the “solution to the problem of housing in New Orleans.” Similarly done with the victims of Tsunami - the poor fishermen in Sri Lanka, which were prohibited rebuild damaged by the ocean fishing shelters - in their place was built in exclusive hotels, thus depriving indigenous inhabitants of the island of their sole livelihood.
Why not the corporation?
Naomi Klein, who is regarded as a writer of the strongly left-wing views, believes that the alternative to free market economy does not necessarily have to be Communism. As examples of solutions to effectively compete with corporate capitalism, she gives: Scandinavian model, the national economy southern parts of South America in the years 60.tych last century (the so-called Southern Cone) and the New Deal and economic ideas of John Keynes. However, no discussion about which model of economic development is better, is the strength of “The Shock Doctrine.” The book is a prosecution of specific people - economists, politicians and businessmen - to the repressive manner impose its agenda for economic and other local communities. They do this not counting with the local population, and its resistance often overcome violence, using the military (and hired their own), respectively constructed and institutions of international law - even those that were designed to assist countries in economic crisis and restore poverty (as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank).
Although the book is written in a biased manner, that is the voice of opposition to the activities of free-market fanatics, the vast majority of the facts described in it is thoroughly documented, supported by reliable sources, observations and conversations, including with representatives of “Chicago School”. Klein spent a couple of years traveling the many places - was among several other countries in South America, and in occupied Iraq and - of course - on land the United States. Supporters of contemporary capitalism can certainly hurt some biases, too far-reaching proposals, or inconclusive descriptions of certain events, but I think that - taking into account the magnitude of manipulation, which are subjected on a daily basis by the other, corporate party - a slight tendentiousness Naomi Klein deserves forgiveness. I think that it is described in the book to know the party dark richness of modern business and learn how they came to billionths of profits and who pays for it - and what the price is.
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