Shock Doctrine Takes a Bite Out of Friedman Legend

[Joanne98]

The Pencil Warrior

By Dave Wheelock
for Mountain Mail

SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- Often in this column I have suggested articles, books and films I believe folks would profit from reading. This week my message is different: I’m not recommending you read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine – I am imploring you to do so.

The increased urgency is due to my realization that she has isolated the common thread connecting the miseries produced under the cover of mass psychological shocks like those produced in our own country by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina with economic crises exported clear around the globe.

Since solutions to the most critical challenges facing truly civil societies won’t come without clear understanding of their causes, I believe it is imperative that as many people as possible become conversant with the thesis of The Shock Doctrine. In a nutshell, it is about the privatization of governments for the enrichment of an elite class of owners.

The Shock Doctrine presents a clear picture of how the goals and mechanisms of University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman’s neoliberal economics (sometimes called neo-conservatism in this country) lay at the roots of the first infamous 9/11 – Sept. 11, 1973, when tanks rolled into the Chilean capital of Santiago to depose democratically-elected President Salvador Allende.
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