[lbo-talk] Klein's work (was Re: Jezebel does Naomi Klein)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 2 18:44:21 PST 2008


On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Shane Taylor wrote:


> This reviewer strains to sympathize, but doesn't make a strong sell
> for the book:
>
> <http://www.chrishayes.org/articles/new-road-serfdom/>

Where he says:


> While Klein calls this the “shock doctrine,” I prefer a phrase she
> quotes from former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who
> called those who imposed free-market “shock therapy” on Russia in
> the early ’90s “market Bolsheviks.”

Unfair to the Bolshies! When I interviewed Boris Kagarlitsky in the late 1980s - man it sure was difficult to call Moscow in those days, and the sound quality really sucked - he used the phrase "market Stalinism." I like that better.

Doug



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