Naomi Klein On Democracy Now

Posted on Tuesday, September 18 at 08:20 by N Say
Naomi Klein was on Democracy Now! for the whole hour to talk about The Shock Doctrine:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/1411235

Here's the best part of the interview:

I was shocked that there is this cache of literature out there, which I didn't know existed, where the economists admit it. You know, and this is what I guess I’m most excited about in the book is how many quotes I have from very high-level advocates of free-market economics, everyone from Milton Friedman to John Williamson, who’s the man who coined the phrase “the Washington Consensus,” admitting amongst themselves, not publicly, but amongst themselves, in sort of technocratic documents, that they have never been able to push through a radical free-market makeover in the absence of a large-scale crisis, i.e. the central myth of our time that democracy and capitalism go hand in hand is known to be a lie by the very people who are advancing it, and they will admit it on the record.

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