Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Klein and Cockburn on Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein defends her "shock doctrine" thesis against her Chicago School critics.

Patrick Cockburn assesses the book from a traditional Marxian perpsective and argues that Klein "overstates the the strength and mystery of the enemy" (to borrow Hunter S. Thompson's formulation). vitality of capitalism. For him the system is still doomed.

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