http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2008/01/04/naomi-klein-lying-to-sell-books/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2008/01/04/naomi-klein-lying-to-sell-books/#comment-9594 Pat Law™ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:23:50 +0000 http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2008/01/04/naomi-klein-lying-to-sell-books/#comment-9594 Thanks for sharing this... although the video leaves a rather bitter aftertaste. Like James Frey justifying his credentials, without quite addressing any accusations made against him. Thanks for sharing this… although the video leaves a rather bitter aftertaste. Like James Frey justifying his credentials, without quite addressing any accusations made against him.

]]> http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2008/01/04/naomi-klein-lying-to-sell-books/#comment-9579 Jol Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:58:31 +0000 http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2008/01/04/naomi-klein-lying-to-sell-books/#comment-9579 Isn't there a whole humongous spectrum of ways to run an economy between Friedmanesque market fundamentalism and communism? This is insane reductionism - moreover, on its own terms, the video barely discusses any of Klein's specific ideas at all. The only terms in which the makers appear to be able to conceive of her thought is in terms of "free market" versus "not free market" - and even those are lies because a lot of what Klein rejects is the use of force to bash workers' collective movements. This is just a caricature - much like the "reviews" of Disaster Capitalism you posted in a comment on my blog. It doesn't get to grips with the substance of what she's said at all. Isn’t there a whole humongous spectrum of ways to run an economy between Friedmanesque market fundamentalism and communism? This is insane reductionism - moreover, on its own terms, the video barely discusses any of Klein’s specific ideas at all. The only terms in which the makers appear to be able to conceive of her thought is in terms of “free market” versus “not free market” - and even those are lies because a lot of what Klein rejects is the use of force to bash workers’ collective movements. This is just a caricature - much like the “reviews” of Disaster Capitalism you posted in a comment on my blog. It doesn’t get to grips with the substance of what she’s said at all.

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