Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become an essential book in bookshelves across the world. It is no coincidence that we have chosen to revise this important text at this moment.
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From Naomi Klein’s website: Naomi Klein’s third book, The Shock Doctrine is the unofficial story of how the “free market” came to dominate the world. But it is a story radically different from the one usually told. It is a story about violence and shock perpetrated on people, on countries, on economies.
Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically, and that unfettered capitalism goes hand-in-hand with democracy. Instead, she argues it has consistently relied on violence and shock, and reveals the puppet strings behind the critical events of the last four decades.
We will be discussing it every other Wednesday during 5 sessions starting on May 6th.
Session 1: May 6th — Intro and Part 1 (84 pages)
Session 2: May 20th — Part 2 and 3 (122 pages)
Session 3: June 3rd — Part 4 (140 pages)
Session 4: June 17th — Part 5 and 6 (129 pages)
Session 5: July 1st — Part 7 and Conclusions (105 pages)