Reviews:
Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" one of the most important books of the 21st Century…
Klein's newest book is “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, that explodes the myth of “free market” democracy. It shows how neoliberal, Washington consensus fundamentalism dominates the world with America its lead exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere. Wars are waged, social services cut and freedom sacrificed when people are too distracted, cowed or bludgeoned to object. Klein describes a worldwide process of social and economic engineering she calls “disaster capitalism” with torture along for the ride to reinforce the message - no “New World Order” alternatives are tolerated.
'The Shock Doctrine' and Chicago 'school reform', Editor's Introduction
The book review beginning on this page is the longest ever published in Substance. It could be longer and well worth our attention. Why? Consider:
First, the excerpt from the Introduction to “The Shock Doctrine” that follows helps explain why the book is relevant to everyone facing the paradoxes of Chicago’s public schools today. Beginning last year, the media were full of laudatory stories about how a group of Chicago “experts” were helping “reform” the devastated public schools of New Orleans.
