The shock theory

[Ungern]

Hello everybody,

I'm reading the book :

The shock doctrine
Editor : Knoof Canada
Author : Naomi Klein

This is a very logical but also worriable book...
The summary is this one:

A economic school of Chicago (very close with the republican US.party) has this solution for a better world.
It's certainly a better world for a few of men but also a hell for the rest of the humanity .
The rich more and more rich,and the poor more and more poor, and the police between the two groups ...

What he said in this book,is what you could see yesterday in Greece, today in Irak, and what you have saw in the past in Sud America and Russia:

first step : a big shock : politic,économic,militar,or an environemental disaster (thyphon ...)
second step : you come with a lot of money to repair (or more precisely,to have the look of repair).

The cost of the aids is the following :

1° it's you who will repair ,with your workers,and your sociéty (not the workers of the country); thus you give money who is thus immediately coming back into your pocket to pay the reconstruction...
2° the priority of the repairs is what "you" can do in the future with these constructions ; for exemple :with an hospital,you can do nothing,but with a harbour an airport and a higway,you can do a lot of thinks ...
3° you didn't give this money, this is a loan,thus a debt who will be pay back .....if the country didn't want pay back,you send the FMI and the Worl Bank ...if not enough,you send theStock Exchange ...
4° the actual price of the debt is that you must privatise all what you have : health care,education,pension ...and "immediately" thus at very low price .

At last the situation in this country is the following :

a) a lot of men are became very rich.
b) the other became very poor.
c) there is no way to became rich if you are poor : the lift is in use only during a very short time.
d) All the country is completely and definitively distroyed (the way of live is completely "different" ... not "better",but "different" ; the society became a consumption society ; the question is not to be or not to be ,the question is to have or not to have money ....
e) if you are not happy the police is there .
f) if you are realy not happy ,the army is there and you become a state ennemy - a "terrorist" (yesterday,we said "communist",but today it's "terrorist" ... the world change ...)

Not in my name ...we said ...


Sorry for my english ....

 

[tay]

Yes I read it when it first came out.


A true must read for anyone who interested in freedom and democracy particularly with the TPP and CETA upon us........

 

[Walter]

Klein is a lefty twit.

 

[Cliffy]

Klein is a lefty twit.

And you are a right wing twit. So what?

 

[bobnoorduyn]

I wouldn't put too much weight on anything Naomi Klein writes or says. Having watched CBC's pseudo documentary based on her book, "This Changes Everything" its not hard to see how easy it is to play fast and loose with the truth. One has to remember that Her husband is Avi Lewis, whose father is Stephen Lewis and Grandfather was David. Their NDP roots run deep. The idea that the free market economy is the root of all evil discounts the fact that everything that has been tried before or since has been equally or even more disastrous.


The new socialism cloaked in environmentalism they espouse will only serve to shift the goalposts to make the game more favourable to their followers; much like Mao's cultural revolution or Lenin and Stalin's Bolshevik revolution, the rich and bourgeoisie became poor or dead, the poor remained poor while the leaders and their devout followers wielded the power. Make no mistake, socialism still requires a hierarchy, and as China found out, while the Russians did not, it cannot survive without a capitalist economy.


A more informative read would be "Darkness at Dawn", what happens after a closed socialist economy fails. It lead to rampant capitalism without the rule of law, or simply said, a criminal state. While the oligarchs who profited under Soviet rule and flourished after its collapse, are now also increasingly finding themselves in exile, prison, dead or disappeared. At least the lot of the average Russian citizen has improved dramatically over the past 25 years even though their system is far from perfect, or even good.


The likes of Naomi Klein, Maud Barlow, Michael Moore et al would have us believe that somehow life would be better under a new world order of socialism disguised as environmentalism, and indeed it would be for some, but to the detriment of a great many more than currently suffer under the system that exists now. As well, disaster profiteering will still exist as it always has.