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

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The Shock Doctrine is the kind of book that fundamentally changed my worldview on how war, industry, disasters, economics, and capitalism all intersect - and specifically how they are much more related than one might think. It does an incredible job at reaching through history to illustrate the many ways people in power use (or cause) crisis as a means for implementing further systems of power and control. Parts of the book about economics, the governments in various countries, and finer points to wars lost me a bit, but particularly because it was my first time hearing about many of these events and the content is very information dense. Regardless, a transformational read.