I'm 100 pages into Shock Doctrine and the similarities

[onethatcares]

between Chile and what is happenng here are amazing. So far the only thing we are missing is the military take over. I knew in my bones the CIA was as crooked as it could be, but Allende and the rest just blows me away.

As a side note, has anyone seen anything from Greg Palast lately?

[gateley]

1. The only thing missing is the military takeover. Just wait. nt

[angrycarpenter]

2. Page 89 here.

I Really know little about economics so it is slow go with many google searches.

The people in that book are a cult, maybe the worst cult ever.

[AllieB]

3. I'm re-reading it right now.

It is scary. I was thinking that the coup in Mauritania today is another opportunity for the Chicago Boys to apply their 'shock' so that the oil companies can swoop in and bleed the already poor country dry.

[AllieB]

4. K&R

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Chicago School free market policies were imposed with a violence that rivals Stalinism

That's been clear enough for many years.

It was more efficient, and didn't kill nearly as many people, but the use of violence and terror to subdue populations that disagreed with it are parallel. That's the case Klein makes with significant force and persuasive power.

What happened in the Southern Cone was a purge as terrible as the land reforms of Stalinist Russia. And that really lies at the heart of the contemporary system of global capitalism. Don't ever let anyone tell you that "communism doesn't work" without offering the clear rejoinder: free market capitalism doesn't work either. It's just as radical, just as idealistic, just as failed, and - contrary to claims, JUST AS VIOLENT.