Reviews tagging 'Classism'

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

3 reviews

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

A very important read and extremely relevant now with the current genocide of the Palestinian people. It’s all connected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, War, Deportation, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Classism, Racism, and Xenophobia

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

7000 stars. I'm always going to remember reading this slowly over two months at Wild Grind each morning as summer turned to fall, and feeling the most bonkers emotions from grief to rage to hope. There has never been a book that so cleanly makes the case that free market capitalism and the US's involvement in "rebuilding" other countries is a blatant and cruel scam. And this was published in 2007! To know what's transpired since publication is to know the worst was yet to come. Astonishing,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Torture, War, and Xenophobia

ka_cam's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book! Readable, informative. Wish there was an afterword with updates from the 2010s or 2020s

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Racism, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Violence, Deportation, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Rape, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Sexism, Slavery, and War