Author, journalist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein spoke on “The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" on Friday, October 17, 2008, at the Rio Theater, Santa Cruz, CA. The sold-out, standing-room-only event was sponsored by the Resource Center for Non-Violence.
The talk was recorded by Skidmark Bob (producer, DJ, and audio-collage-wizard) for Free Radio Santa Cruz. Check out the Naomi Klein post on his excellent blog, PoP dEFECT RADIO.
“The Shock Doctrine” is a groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman’s free-market economic revolution. Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement’s peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies.
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“Corporate media constantly refer to the “mistakes” or “missteps” of the U.S. policy in Iraq, or the “incompetence” of U.S. handiling of the Katrina catastrophe. A much darker truth exists. In recent decades, a corporate class and culture has evolved - and taken power in Washington - that thrives on disaster. They create disasters, as in premeditated war [on Iraq], and rush to profit from disasters such as Katrina… The Bush team [after 9/11] … quickly moved to exploit the shock that gripped the nation to push through its radical vision of a hollow government in which everything from war fighting to disaster response was a for-profit venture… . It was a bold evolution of shock therapy.”–Naomi Klein
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