I'm really not advancing a "great man" theory of history, or some idea of a back-door conspiracy, I just think this is the way history works. After the market crash in 1929, the tide really did turn in favor of the middle class and workers. We saw a period over 30 to 40 years where the middle class rose to unprecedented levels in the United States, but not just in the United States, in any country that adopted these types of policies. And it really did work, in terms of creating class mobility. But it really did eat into profits and this stage that we've been living in since Reagan is really about the people in the highest income brackets saying, "We want our New Deal. We don't want to share so much." The basic demands of this counterrevolution, or this revolt of the elites, have all been about taking back those gains—breaking unions, being able to pay lower wages, having the freedom to scour the world for the lowest wages—and it's really been a liberation movement—the liberation of capital from all constraints.
With the U.S., in terms of why it is so incredibly easy to take advantage of a moment of crisis is because this is such an amnesiac culture. More than being an amnesiac culture, it's a culture that makes amnesia a point of pride—the idea that you can reinvent yourself, that you have no history, that you have no past. It's really a culture that's been at war with memory since its inception. It sees memory as baggage. So, to be a little less optimistic here for a minute [Laughs], I do think until historical memory, including the bad parts, is something that's valued in the United States and amnesia is no longer fetishized, these patterns will repeat. Because people without memory are putty.
NK: I want Obama to win over McCain. It's not that complicated for me. My concern about this political moment is the extent to which the Obama campaign sucks up all the political oxygen on the progressive end of the spectrum. I don't think there really is an anti-war movement in the United States anymore. I think there is a pro-Obama movement. There's this idea that elections are a moment when you really talk about politics, but actually what they do is they defer politics and you're constantly told, "We'll talk about that after the election. First, we have to beat McCain!"
I would totally bone her senseless. Oh yeah and she's like totally right about everything. HOT. SMART. LEFTIST. But I think she shaves her pits and legs so she's not revolting and shit.
I would totally bone her senseless. Oh yeah and she's like totally right about everything. HOT. SMART. LEFTIST. But I think she shaves her pits and legs so she's not revolting and shit.
have you seen the cabbage field workers?
have you seen the cabbage field workers?
Yeah, I guess relatively speaking, she isn't that bad. But still, her face could totally use a Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution or two.
she does have some pretty shaky evidence
I would totally bone her senseless. Oh yeah and she's like totally right about everything. HOT. SMART. LEFTIST. But I think she shaves her pits and legs so she's not revolting and shit.
go to tnr.com and read jonathan chait's review of her new book: http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b
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Wow. Klein's an absolute cunt. Imagine your grandfather's a douche-bag union leader. And your father's a chicken-shit draft dodger who went to Canada on "moral principles. " You yourself are some worthless cunt whose sole purpose for years was to follow the WTO and burn down McDonald's. I'd absolutely kill myself. A dungpile like this family has no moral compass - no heroes. Everything is flipped around. Does Klein knit her own shit or grow her own veggie burgers? If not, she should shut the hell up. If she wants to put her money where her mouth is, opt out of this capitalist society and move to Venezuela or Cuba. Skank ho. I'm sorry, people like this scum really drive me up the wall.
I think the issue is that Naomi Klein probably overextended herself with Shock Doctrine. The Harper's Article is great however and If you haven't had a chance to read it and are interested let me know.
the jonathan chait review @ tnr was pretty harsh, but not entirely unwarranted. she does have some pretty shaky evidence
go to tnr.com and read jonathan chait's review of her new book: http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420bYow :lol
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The homeland-security sector is also becoming increasingly integrated with media corporations, a development that has Orwellian implications. . . . General Electric, which owns NBC, purchased InVision, the major producer of controversial high-tech bomb-detection devices used in airports and other public spaces.
InVision received a staggering $15 billion in homeland-security contracts between 2001 and 2006, more of such contracts than any other company.
The creeping expansion of the disaster-capitalism complex into the media may prove to be a new kind of corporate synergy, one building on the vertical integration that became so popular in the Nineties. It certainly makes sound business sense. The more panicked our societies become, convinced that there are terrorists lurking in every mosque, the higher the news ratings soar, the more biometric IDs and liquid-explosive-detection devices the complex sells, and the more high-tech fences it builds.
without a middle class who will buy all the bullshit the lower class makes?
Also, she's kind of cute for a economic braniac leftist AMERICA HATING COMMIE:She's Canadian, too. :cancry