Shameless propaganda. Naomi Klein is an activist, with no economic or business understanding whatsoever. It is a shame that in modern times a primitive, incredibly biased and ignorant work like the "shock doctrine" can be a bestseller.
She denounces capitalism (a system the vast majority of countries are using in the world: China, Russia included) which has helped so many poor countries escape the shackles of failed socialist economics (only North Korea and Cuba remain - see how those are doing), like it is some sort of bogeyman. Clearly, she has never had a course in development nor macro economics - and yet she is somehow supposed to be this great visionary? What a joke.
But most annoyingly she accuses Milton Friedman of being responsible for the actions of the Pinochet regime. That's like accusing Henry Ford for drunk people dying in car accidents, or accusing Chinese for all the paper cuts in the world. It's actually even worse, since how the economy is structured has nothing to do with how oppressive the government is. What is most shameful, however, is that she never actually bothered to research that Milton Friedman was a person who promoted personal freedom and liberty to people above all, and that he personally resented what the Pinochet regime did. (though most likely she did, but just lied)
A shameless propaganda, that insults Milton Friedman, accuses him of doing something he never did. A economic failure of a book/movie. Naomi Klein is either incredibly ignorant, or pathetically black-hearted to lie in such a way.
She denounces capitalism (a system the vast majority of countries are using in the world: China, Russia included) which has helped so many poor countries escape the shackles of failed socialist economics (only North Korea and Cuba remain - see how those are doing), like it is some sort of bogeyman. Clearly, she has never had a course in development nor macro economics - and yet she is somehow supposed to be this great visionary? What a joke.
But most annoyingly she accuses Milton Friedman of being responsible for the actions of the Pinochet regime. That's like accusing Henry Ford for drunk people dying in car accidents, or accusing Chinese for all the paper cuts in the world. It's actually even worse, since how the economy is structured has nothing to do with how oppressive the government is. What is most shameful, however, is that she never actually bothered to research that Milton Friedman was a person who promoted personal freedom and liberty to people above all, and that he personally resented what the Pinochet regime did. (though most likely she did, but just lied)
A shameless propaganda, that insults Milton Friedman, accuses him of doing something he never did. A economic failure of a book/movie. Naomi Klein is either incredibly ignorant, or pathetically black-hearted to lie in such a way.