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rhubarbpi3's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.5
Very well written and I love the corporeal aspect do the extended metaphor of shock throughout the book! It made the argument so much more articulate and clear.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War
aliijay's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
mpatterson610's review against another edition
4.0
Super fascinating book and so relevant for what Israel is doing right now
vikramx's review against another edition
4.0
"Instability is the new Stability" - Shock doctrine unravels the neo-conservatism nightmare of deregulated free market policies whose sole purpose is to profiteer from catastrophic calamity ranging from the 70's of breaking down South American countries like Chile , Argentina to Katrina New Orleans to the Gulf war all funded though tax payers . The creation of a new form of rabid capitalism which feeds on the most vulnerable be it privatisation of schools to outsourcing critical defense functions .
Klein goes on to point that this form of virulent economic policies stems from Milton Friedman ideology of total de-regulation in which the market will find its equilibrium thought the cost born would be nothing short of a cataclysmic disaster , currently being played out in the US where an average American family is saddled with massive debts and income in-equality . "Brexit" is another illustration where miss-informed decision by Britain is now being used to de-fund their National Health would fit Klein's Shock doctrine I presume .
Klien's book is replete with examples ranging cross continents over decades but with the same result , very disturbing yet revealing set events - a must read .
Klein goes on to point that this form of virulent economic policies stems from Milton Friedman ideology of total de-regulation in which the market will find its equilibrium thought the cost born would be nothing short of a cataclysmic disaster , currently being played out in the US where an average American family is saddled with massive debts and income in-equality . "Brexit" is another illustration where miss-informed decision by Britain is now being used to de-fund their National Health would fit Klein's Shock doctrine I presume .
Klien's book is replete with examples ranging cross continents over decades but with the same result , very disturbing yet revealing set events - a must read .
mayareadsalittletoomuch's review against another edition
library loan expired, will likely buy and start up again