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[Big_Bird]

Here's a video to help you while away 7 minutes of your time. It's an intro to Klein's take on Friedman's 'Economic Shock Therapy' : The Shock Doctrine

[bucheon bum]

naomi klein.

I read no logo and have been close-minded towards her ever since.

[Masta_Don]

If she wanted to say that coups cause the power hungry to suck up money and prop up their friends, I could believe that. But that the free market is responsible for coups, unemployment and cronyism, I can't get behind.

[Mosley]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Naomi Klein....

If you watch that video, you'll miss the objectivity of PRAVDA, pre-1992

[thepeel]

Ad homonym time:

I've NK and her legend of a douch hubby at a cbc forum. Naomi has a silver spoon so far up her arse that she can lick it. She is one of those all too common Canadian wealthy white lefties that worships poverty as "authentic" and for whom Latin America is a kind of intellectual and spiritual promised land. The woman is insufferable in her smugness and self assuredness. At the debate a pal of mine asked her who the "we" was in the "we need to take back the streets", as he wasn't part of "we". She made a reference to the number of books she had sold and the silent masses etc etc. I asked her to define social justice (my question for leftists at seminars and debates is always to define social justice), to which I got a tirade against America as a response. It was almost as comical as the legions of minions who showed up in their Tuesday afternoon jogging pant best to cheer her on. Those were back in the neo-liberal days, as my peers and I were labeled as such. I suppose we would be neo-cons now.

That said, shock therapy is a bad idea (I can't watch the video now, so I assume it is the shock therapy of the Washington Consensus in Latin America, whereby government firms are sold quickly and the markets liberalised quickly etc). Mainstream and classical liberal economists questioned that set of polices when they were first suggested. Better that you leave state enterprises as they are, sell shares to the public to 50%, and then more over time, and most importantly, break their monopoly. Allow firms (even American ones, the horror) to compete with the formerly state-owned enterprise.

MF is the cats arse, even still.

[Mosley]

BJWD: You've got her pegged to a "T", mate.

[keane]

[postfundie]

yes yes...watched the video...Freidman bad. Bad man Freidman....If only we could just listen to the very sound economic advice of this journalist then we wouldn't have problems like Iraq...