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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
18 reviews
wetsokcs's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: War, Racism, and Torture
hirundo's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: War, Torture, Colonisation, Genocide, Police brutality, and Violence
ewmod's review against another edition
4.5
Really great book, as a genzennial ('00) I was really blown away by the uncensored accounts of events I was too young or unborn to understand. However maybe I am not the ideal reader, imo the "shock" metaphor was a liiiittle heavy-handed at times if you are already on board with the idea that economic policy is just as/even more oppressive as social policy.
Graphic: Torture
iarlais's review against another edition
5.0
My personal book of the year.
Graphic: Torture
Minor: Homophobia
littlebutton's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Torture
emmameetsearth's review
4.0
- Crisis opportunism
- Voodoo politics
- Nations inheriting debt from oppressors
- Corporatism
- Volatility of global economy - Crisis is built on crisis.
"An economic system that requires constant growth, while bucking almost all serious attempts at environmental regulation, generates a steady stream of disasters all on its own, whether military, ecological or financial. The appetite for easy, short-term profits offered by purely speculative investment has turned the stock, currency and real estate markets into crisis-creation machines, as the Asian financial crisis, the Mexican peso crisis and the dotcom collapse all demonstrate."
The chapter on the 2003 Iraq war and pinochet's reign of terror really hit me.
Graphic: Torture, War, and Murder
Moderate: Racism
anil's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Torture, and Violence
zombiezami's review
4.75
Graphic: Torture, Islamophobia, Violence, Child death, Death, Genocide, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness
Minor: Sexual violence