A review by zosiablue
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

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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