Actually Naomi Klein was born in Canada in Montreal and is a Canadian citizen but her parents were American Vietnam war resisters and moved to Montreal. She still lives in Toronto.
As far as I know she was not involved with the Communist Party although her grandparents were but rejected it before she was born! Klein was a spoiled brat who loved to shop and shop in Malls. Her first major work No Logo was related to her reaction to this stage in her life. She also became an ardent feminist partly due to her reaction to a massacre of female students in Montreal.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 3:43 AM
>
> Bhaskar Sunkara writes about a 'peculiar brand of "liberal
> radicalism" unique to the United States. Specifically,
> I mean Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, and even Gore Vidal in
> his prime, Alexander Cockburn, et all (not sure if Cockburn
> belongs).'
>
> And wouldn't you go back to I.F. Stone, Lillian Hellman,
> and a couple more expatriate Brits, Christopher Hitchens (he
> wasn't always a neo-con) and Jessice Mitford?
>
>
> Bhaskar: 'Naomi Klein thinks the left's history in the
> 1930s was a tremendous success' I assumed that Klein's
> background was the Communist Party - am I wrong?
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