I just read Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"

[Th1onein]

A real eye opener. She's got Bush and his boys pinned down exactly. They are gutting our public sector and transfering massive amounts of our wealth to private companies.

[undeterred]

1. Its next on my list.

I am prepared to be shocked.

[The Traveler]

2. I'm about 2/3 in

That book is just bad for my blood pressure ...

Klein's put an amazing amount of research into this text. Just browse the foot notes at the end ... an enormous list of references.

[deutsey]

10. This is a great book, but it's also something I have to read in small doses

It is rather bleak and, although I know she ends with the hope of a burgeoning resistance, it's just too much for me to take.

This isn't blaming the messenger, though. I admire Klein a lot...it's just that I'm tired of "our side's" story from the last 40 years or so being pockmarked with violent repression, stolen elections, and crushing defeat.

Still, knowledge is power and Klein has put together an incisive analysis of what what we're up against which may help motivate us to fight on.

[femmocrat]

3. I read it earlier this year. It was really an education.

Since reading it, there have been many instances where I can see correlations to her writing. And I understand the anti-globalization movement much better. Those demonstrators knew about these travesties years and years ago. Wish I had paid more attention to them before now.

[JDPriestly]

4. My advice to those who haven't read it. Get it, read it, and right now.

Order it tonight. It's a must read.

[eridani]

5. Really glad that the last chapter was about successful resistance

Otherwise it would have been too damned depressing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. First comes knowledge.. now my question is how are we to resist

when most of the country is still sleeping?

[Blarch]

7. Great read.

[blondie58]

8. great book

I could only digest so much of it at a time, though- it is so deep. So many truths in this wonderful book.

[Chalco]

9. I bought 20 copies and gave them to friends.

After they read it we had a group discussion. Everyone was blown away.

Klein is my hero.

[MountainLaurel]

13. My husband did that too

Sent copies to about 10 friends and family members. It was that important a book.

[Lost4words]

11. Just started it, I heart Namoi Klein!

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[alfredo]

12. They want a decentralized dictatorship. Exxon is just one head of

the monster.

[Bigmack]

14. We need a comic book version....

or one of those "______ for Idiots" books, so that most Murikans can "read" it.

If a majority actually read it, Dumbya and Darth would be swinging from a lamppost, along with the whole Chicago School bunch.

Like earlier posters said, I had to read it in small doses to keep from crashing completely.

My rhetorical question for the day.... Why do some people feel they deserve all the money and benefits of society and everybody else deserves nothing? Nature?... Nurture? ... are they Space Aliens?

[Uncle Joe]

15. I haven't read her book yet, however I agree with that assessment.

Thanks for the thread, Th1onein.

[kenfrequed]

16. Amazing book.

It actually explains much of what is wrong the world today and how the source of so much human misery seems to be the greediest SOB's on the planet.

[ForeignSpectator]

17. A real eye opener indeed. It answers many "why's" of recent history.

I just started the chapter on Russia when I took a break but will pick it up again soon.

The people here are not kidding : "If you didn't read it, go get it asap and read it!" And tell your friends and relatives about it...

Yesterday or so there was a thread here on DU about the American Auto Industry wanting a $50 billion in loans to not die, from the government. And I kept thinking, wouldn't that be exactly what that fuck friedman always fought?!
You can't have it both ways, i.e. privatize profits and socialize losses, but that seems to implicitly included in the "Chicago School of Economics"... fuckers.

[cascadiance]

18. I've been meaning to beat up Costco for not stocking this book...

... and stocking such trash as Ann Coulter's, The "Obama Nation", etc., but just saw *one* paperback copy of "The Shock Doctrine" this weekened. Don't know if the others were buried in some other stack that some winger put it to hide it from us or not, or if a bunch of shoppers like me scooped them up, but at least it was showing up. If I didn't already have a hardback copy, I'd have bought it then.

[Marie26]

19. It's an eye-opener, isn't it?

That book truly changed how I look at the world, forever. Everyone should read it.

[ProfessorPlum]

20. This is THE most important book written about politics and corporate power

in the last 30 years. Nothing comes close to having the explanatory power of this book. EVERYthing that happens is almost explicable in light of what she has put forward, and what is amazing is that this is just history. No one ever talks about this stuff, but it is out there, plain as day once you start looking at it.

My whole viewpoint was changed by this book, and I've recommended everyone get and read it. Maybe I'll have to start buying copies and sending them.