Bec!!! I want to borrow the book after you!
The Shock Doctrine: documentary based on the book by Naomi Klein, which chronicles the history and effects of neo-liberal economic policy - how it leads to poverty and repression, and how its proponents take advantage of crises and disasters to implement mass privatization. The film traces a trend of mass privatization and corporate re-engineering of societies during times of crisis from Milton Freidman’s influence on Pinochet’s Chile, through the Thatcher and Reagan administrations and the fall of the Soviet Union, to the war on terror and the 2008 financial collapse.
It also shows how attempts at radical privatization and deregulation have lead to crippling wealth disparity, and eventually violent repression of popular resistance.
(via socialuprooting)
