Since the fall of Communism, free markets and free people have been packaged as a single ideology that claims to be humanity's best and only defense against repeating a history filled with mass graves, killing fields and torture chambers. Yet in the Southern Cone [South America], the first place where the contemporary religion of unfettered free markets escaped from the basement workshops of the University of Chicago and was applied in the real world, it did not bring democracy; it was predicated on the overthrow of democracy in country after country. And it did not bring peace but required the systematic murder of tens of thousands and the torture of between 100,000 and 150,000 people.Are you not a little frightened yet? The masterminds of this strategy that is sweeping the country MEAN business.
~ from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein ~
This brief series of posts began with this one.
Frightening indeed.
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